"When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make."

-- Ridley Pearson

#Mother Quotes #Glasses Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.”
“The new Bond film, will be a big, big hit, because every Bond film is an event. Fathers take their sons to it; probably grandfathers. It's been a long time, and I think that the success of Bond is because the audiences have never been cheated by the producers. They always spend every penny, put it on the screen, and then the things that people expect to see in a Bond film - big action scenes, glamorous ladies - it's pure escapism.”

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“I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.”
“This book fills a much-needed gap.”
“The Lampoon was definitely quite formative. You know there's a crazy like kind of network of comedy writers from The Lampoon that are, that kind of you know like Seinfeld and The Simpsons and a lot of shows kind of had a lot of kind of Lampoon writers and so that was very formative. I mean, to me I got interested in comedy writing at an early like reading like Dave Barry.”
“I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high school teaching - and I do enjoy it, at least sometimes. But I find it incredibly anxiety-producing and exhausting. Privacy is more congenial, and I go a little crazy if I can't spend a big chunk of every day, or almost every day, alone. Certainly I have to be alone to write.”

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“Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.”
“Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.”

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