"Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously."

-- Aristotle

#Firsts Quotes #Comedy Quotes #Treated Quotes

“Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked with wax, bobbing about in the Red Sea. No one heard my hollers. In the end an old fisherman set me free, by which time I was desperate enough to grant him several wishes. I erupted in the form of a smoking giant, did a few lightning bolts, and bent to ask him his desire. Poor old boy had dropped dead of a heart attack. There should be a moral there, but for the life of me I can't see one.”
“People are going to bash you. You get rejected. It's hard. I don't really feel like that's my place as the teacher. I think the most important thing is to figure out what they're trying to do and turn them onto writers who are doing similar stuff. I think that's something I can do more than anything else: get them to be big readers.”
“Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.”

Source : David Elkind (1994). “Parenting Your Teenager”
“I consider myself a relatively moral guy”
“State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.”
“The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.”
“My pitching philosophy is simple. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.”
“I refuse to put make-up on just because the paparazzi are on my doorstep. I find it morally wrong.”

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