"With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook."

-- Steve Martin

#Hook Quotes #Comedy Quotes

“Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.”
“Cause it's really hard, it's hard to be an actor.”
“Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.”

Source : Harvey Cox (2013). “The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective”, p.258, Princeton University Press
“If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.”
“You are not going to destroy this imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it,”
“I guess ... I'm going to get that ice cream sundae they give you on the airplane. I usually pass on that, but I think I'm actually going to get extra whipped cream and maybe even the chocolate syrup. I'm really winging it here. I'm going to be flying. It's really a little too early to start drinking.”
“In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55 percent of their rated total generating capacity. Today, as a result of several decades of experience and an intense focus on performance ... nuclear plants in the United States operate at over 90 percent of capacity. That improvement in operating efficiently is so significant in its impact that it can almost be seen as a new source in electric power itself.”
“Living, we fret. Dying, we live. Iâ€™ll keep that in mind. Iâ€™ll be of good cheer.”

Source : Robert Silverberg (2009). “Dying Inside”, p.302, Macmillan

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