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Neil Gaiman Quotes

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A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

Also, I’ve already won all the awards. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I’m sure there are words that are simply in there ’cause I like them. I know I couldn’t justify each and every one of them. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

And there never was an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

As far as I’m concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it’s a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

Neil Gaiman QuotesI don’t know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I lost some time once. It’s always in the last place you look for it. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it’s very, very classical, and in some ways I’m breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can’t do. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I think of myself as a very lazy author. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I’ve written. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I’d go and work my way through the children’s area. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I’ll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you’re trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I’m a fairly undisciplined writer. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

I’m one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I’m very good at doing that, but I don’t like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly. – Neil Gaiman Quotes

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? – Neil Gaiman Quotes

10 Famous Wisdom Quotes

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1. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. – Joan Crawford

2. Where there is love, there is pain. – Spanish Proverb

3. It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

4. Comedy is an escape not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. – Christopher Fry

5. I like a man who grins when he fights. – Winston Churchill

6. Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile. – Deng Ming-Dao

7. Anyone can hate. It costs to love. – John Williamson

8. True is the grief you carry without witnesses. – Marcus Martialis

9. I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. – Groucho Marx

10. It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. – H. L. Mencken

Charile Chaplin Funny Quotes

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sir_charles_chaplins– “I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.”
– “Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.”
– “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
– “We think too much and feel too little.”
– “Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.”
– “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”
– “The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.”
– “All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”
– “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.”

– “To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!”

– “That´s what all we are. Amateurs. We don´t live long enough to be anything else.”

– “In the end, everything is a gag.”

Don Adams Quotes

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– “I am a quick study – I can memorize a script in an hour – but I can’t remember a name three seconds. I’ve even forgotten my wife’s name on occasion.”
– “I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.”
– “I like getting married, but I don’t like being married.”
– “I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn’t until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.”

– “I’ve been paying alimony since I was 14 and child support since 15. That’s a joke, but not by much.”

– “It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.”

– “Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.”

– “Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all.”

Ben Stiller Quotes

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– “Even when I’m not directing, that doesn’t stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.”
– “Fashion is so over the top.”
– “I don’t devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.”
– “I don’t have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don’t have a master plan in that way.”
– “I don’t think know if anything’s going to translate anywhere. You’re making a movie, you hope it’s going to be funny, you can’t think about how it’s going to go over.”
– “I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.”
– “I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It’s a valid test of your creative abilities.”
– “I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.”

– “I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.”

– “I just watched Paul Michael Glaser. He was the reason I wanted to do the movie because as a kid I was such a big fan of his. I watched all the episodes and tried to get a feeling for what he was doing.”

– “I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they’ve done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.”

– “I think most politicians could take a dodgeball in the face.”

– “I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.”

– “I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people’s expectations of me as a comic actor.”

– “I’m always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.”

– “I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.”

– “I’ve had a very good career and I’m grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.”

– “If you look at my eyes when I’m dancing, you’ll see that glazed look.”

– “It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn’t be anonymous.”

– “Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public’s desire for him to be funny simply because he’s so good at it.”