"I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away somewhere, or perhaps find that it's capable of an extra entendre or two. . . . Plotting is nothing I did, or do, naturally. It is the hardest part of the writing process. No matter how many times you plot a script successfully, the next one, representing new and uncharted territory, convinces you that you really don't know how to do it at all."

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Source : "Laughing matters". Book by Larry Gelbart, www.nytimes.com. 1982.

Larry Gelbart

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“The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.”
“There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?”
“I can help someone grow their business 130% in 12 to 18 months only because I've done that with so many of my own and have faced so many challenges.”
“There's never any reason to trust someone. If there's a reason, then it's not trust. -Terence”
“Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.”

Source : "Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 30". Book by Livy, www.perseus.tufts.edu. 1949.
“Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.”

Source : "Maxims". "Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu", 1964.
“I want to experience that massive adrenalin rush when you step into a new stadium, all the more so when that Olympic Stadium is packed full of people waving British flags.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.”

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