"I have a serious investment problem. I have no money."

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Source : Melvin Helitzer (1992). “Comedy Writing Secrets”, Writers Digest Books

Melvin Helitzer

#Serious Quotes #Problem Quotes #Investment Quotes

“I had folks in the RNC spinning me the night of the election because they were sure that their guy [Donald Trump] was going to lose. But they were trying to make the case the RNC had at least done its job.”
“My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.”
“Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus rather than widen our view.”
“Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.”
“On the Internet, everyone squats. In real life, the squat rack is always empty. You figure out what this means.”
“In Africa you have space...there a profound sense of space here, space and sky”
“I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.”

Source : Frederick Sommer (1984). “Sommer: Words”

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