"You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards."

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Harry Shearer

#Character Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Our thoughts are like roots which reach out in every direction into the cosmic ocean of formless energy, and these thought-roots set in motion vibrations like themselves and attract the affinities of our desires and ambitions.”
“The devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a mighty blow to his impoverished ego.”
“The answer to violence is even more democracy. Even more humanity.”

Source : "Norway's tragedy: The sad reality is that terrorists are sometimes homegrown". www.chron.com. July 28, 2011.
“I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.”
“He could not stand. It was not That he could not thrive, he was born With everything but the will â€“ That can be deformed, just like a limb. Death was more interesting to him. Life could not get his attention.”
“It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.”
“To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.”
“And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.”

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