"If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in."

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Source : "Gelbart Holds Seminars On Comedy At Museum" by Peter W. Kaplan, www.nytimes.com. 1984.

Larry Gelbart

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“Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.”
“I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.”

Source : "I Am Your Father: What Every Heart Needs to Know". Book by Mark Stibbe, 2010.
“Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old.”
“The second show [Judas Priest] there was a point where I stood back. We had a 40-foot ramp that went out into the crowd. Rob came out on the bike. It was raining. He drove the bike to the end of the ramp. I'm standing there looking at him. Rain coming down. Lights flashing. Blue smoke everywhere from the bike. He's on the bike with his metal horns in the air, and there were 30,000 people in front of him screaming. I remember thinking, "This is real."”
“There's sometimes a little bit of a trap to limit yourself for an audience.”

Source : Source: www1.cbn.com
“Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.”
“Todayâ€™s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, the underground world of death that acts upon us, do not have the civilized splendor of the Greek city state. The modern political domain is massively, in totalitarian fashion, social, leveling, exhausting. Hence madness is a space of antisocial, apolitical, and paradoxically free individuation”
“As life goes on I'm learning to trust myself more, so I am more comfortable - you have to be, doing things in front of people, especially when there's lots of pressure. I have to make decisions.”

Source : "Interview with Tyler Blackburn from Pretty Little Liars". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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