"In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears."

“You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.”
“I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.
“God knows that some of the greatest souls who have ever lived are those who will never appear in the chronicles of history. They are the blessed, humble souls who emulate the Saviorâ€™s example and spend the days of their lives doing good.”
“Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.”
“But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.”

Source : "Love on the rocks". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. February 6, 2004.
“Good morning is a contradiction of terms.”
“Were I to make the announcement and to run, the reasons I would run is because I have a great belief in this country [America]. ... There's more natural resources than any nation in the world; the greatest education population in the world; the greatest technology of any country in the world; the greatest capacity for innovation in the world; and the greatest political system in the world.”
“LOVE comes of its own free will, it can't be learned in any school!”

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