"A good laugh is sunshine in the house."

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

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“When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.”

Source : "Jane Lynch on How She Almost Wreck-It Ralph -ed Her Career". Interview with Jim Hill, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2012.
“I take pleasure in the little things. Double cheeseburgers, those are good, the sky ten minutes before it rains,the moment your laugh turns into a cackle. And I sit here, and smoke my Camel straights, and I ride my own melt.”
“Who is his manager? Milton Bradley.”
“If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.”
“Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.”
“Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe in the 15th century. On land their potency in reducing castle walls favoured central over local power, since in general only monarchs could afford siege-trains; so nation-states were consolidated and extended into great territorial empires. At sea, guns transformed sailing ships into mobile castles virtually impregnable to opponents who lacked equally powerful ordnance. With the ocean-going gunned warship, western Europe began to extend around the globe.”
“At first I thought I should be a second Beethoven; presently I found that to be another Schubert would be good; then gradually, satisfied with less and less, I resigned to be a Humperdinck.”
“You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.”

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