American - Writer | October 20, 1946 - March 20, 1994
The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.
Lewis Grizzard
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I wish one time in my life I could do what other writers do... get me a villa in Spain and go there to write a book.
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The South is the last place with a sense of place.
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I gave 738 Rotary Club speeches, and it was just driving me crazy, so someone said, 'Why don't you charge money?'
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I think people are a lot more sensitive than they used to be, and quite rightly so. I don't think we should be using racial jokes and things like that.
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I was raised to think women had babies, stayed at home, and men worked. By the time I got ready to do it, I thought I had all the answers. Only somebody had changed the questions.
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Sex hasn't been the same since women started enjoying it.
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Show business is my life.
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There's no such thing as being too Southern.
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I write 200 columns a year, you know. That means I have to have 200 opinions a year. Sometimes, I don't give a damn one way or the other, but that's my job, so I got to take a side.
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I'm a staunch believer in enterprise, and I'm glad I live in a country where - I don't think some people understand this, but if I work hard, I get rewarded for it.
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I don't know how I do it, but I've written about everything. I've written about my shoes.
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