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Writing Quotes by John Cleese
- When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go…
- I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get…
- Tension is wonderful for making people laugh.
- Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.
- I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is…
- I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
- Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.
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