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“I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.”
Source : Lillian Hellman (1969). “The Little Foxes: Play in Three Acts”
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“The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.”
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“Every man is the son of his own works.”
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“There is no word or action but may be taken with two hands,--either with the right hand of charitable construction, or the sinister interpretation of malice and suspicion; and all things do succeed as they are taken. To construe an evil, action well is but a pleasing and profitable deceit to myself; but to misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong,--to myself, the action, and the author.”
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“The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.”
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“Taxes are indeed very heavy - We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. Three times as much by our Pride. And four times as much by our Folly.”
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“Make sure that when you agree with everything that's being said and when you feel passionate about your future, you take it into your hands. You do something.”
Source : Source: www.mtv.com
