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8803 Writer Quotes

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

About Another Beginning Book
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

Another Begins Constant Each
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Birth was the death of him.

Birth Death Him
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The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world.

American Civil Corporate Down
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Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Advise Men Never Successful
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I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.

Business Comedy Everything Life
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But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

Anymore Wish Kind Miss
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I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.

Children Generation Gratifying Kids
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I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.

Business Call Think Thrown
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I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.
Basis Down Good Mainly
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I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it.

Always Business Circles Move
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No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that.

Believed Group Life People
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Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

Pilot Scripts Simply Time
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Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.
Comedy Dancing First Love
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Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.

Big Birth Emmy First
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

Life Is Made Sobs
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.

Write What You Like
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

Couldn't Have Happened Anywhere
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

It Brings Up Happy
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When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

One Loves Art Service
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

We May Achieve Climate
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It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.

It Is Said That
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

Straw Vote Only Shows
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

Archives Away Beyond Bohemia
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Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
Again Find Getting Getting Married
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It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

Anything Difficult Eating Pleasant
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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

After Alone Family Grew
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The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Block Fears Football Game
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You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Attitude Break Call Cat
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Show business is my life.

Business Life My Life Show
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There's no such thing as being too Southern.

Being Southern Thing Too
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The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.
Forgive Mistakes More Often
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Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Changes Dog Lead Life
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I write 200 columns a year, you know. That means I have to have 200 opinions a year. Sometimes, I don't give a damn one way or the other, but that's my job, so I got to take a side.

Columns Damn Give Got
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Things are more complex today, and I think humor has changed a a great deal. People are more sensitive today.

Changed Complex Deal Great
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I gave 738 Rotary Club speeches, and it was just driving me crazy, so someone said, 'Why don't you charge money?'

Charge Club Crazy Driving
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I went last week to get hypnotized. To quit smoking. And the hypnotist said, 'The reason you smoke is you're bitter and depressed.' No, the reason I smoke is the little sucker tastes so good.

Bitter Depressed Get Good
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I'm a staunch believer in enterprise, and I'm glad I live in a country where - I don't think some people understand this, but if I work hard, I get rewarded for it.

Believer Country Enterprise Get
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I don't know how I do it, but I've written about everything. I've written about my shoes.
About Everything How Know
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I don't think I'm a bigot or a racist. But I have a truck, a Blazer. I drink beer. There are some women I do hate.

Beer Bigot Blazer Drink
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I was raised to think women had babies, stayed at home, and men worked. By the time I got ready to do it, I thought I had all the answers. Only somebody had changed the questions.

Answers Babies By The Time Changed
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I wish one time in my life I could do what other writers do... get me a villa in Spain and go there to write a book.

Book Could Get Go
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I'd like to know what I could do if I really had the time to spend on writing a book, with no columns or shows to do at the same time.

Book Columns Could Had
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A little irreverence is always important to being a columnist. I try to do that.

Always Being Columnist Important
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You can write the best column in the world on Monday, and it does you absolutely no good on Tuesday. There is no way to win. You just write until you are tired, they fire you, or you die.

Absolutely Best Column Die
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The South is the last place with a sense of place.
Last Place Sense South
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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.

About Close Could Even
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Amount Break Hearts Including
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

Besides His Just Matter
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

Become Canvas Concrete Different
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