"When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me."

-- Billy Crystal

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“Books do furnish a room.”

Source : Title of novel (1971)
“The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.”
“When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.”
“In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.”
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
“So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor anxiety nor distress nor suffering need trouble your mind any more, no, not evermore.”
“They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front.”
“Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.”

Source : "Beyond the Welfare State" by Gunnar Myrdal, New Haven, 1958.

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