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How would you feel if your prayer requests were made public, displayed on a billboard or marquee? Dear Lord, make me famous. Make me rich.
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Hugh Wilson made it so real and he took us and it was almost when he was directing it, the way he would do it was funnier than the way we did it. And I just developed a regard for him that was unbelievable.
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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
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Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. ''Sing,'' says he, ''and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.''
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I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea!
I am where I would ever be,
With the blue above and the blue below,
And silence wheresoe'er I go.Source: The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. -
I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
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I always start drinking around noon – in case it would be dark early.
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I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun.
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I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
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I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
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I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.
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I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
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I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.
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I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
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I am not sure about Bill Nelson. I haven't heard him say, 'Let's junk the NASA plan to send humans to the moon.' He's not about to say that. That would not be very popular.
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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
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I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.
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I am pretty sure that we err in treating these sayings as paradoxes. It would be nearer the truth to say that it is life itself which is paradoxical and that the sayings of Jesus are simply a recognition of that fact.
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I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
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