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Jerry Lewis Quotes

I started as a writer. I had the dumb act, but I made my living from writing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: March 16, 1926

Topics

Writing Dumb Living Act Started Had

Give me civilization. I don't want to be pampered.

Jennifer Esposito

Me Civilization Want Give Me Give

I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.

Myself Growing Up Television Acting

I want to just go to places where writers don't usually go, where people like me don't usually show up, and say, 'Here are some poems. Do they speak to you? What do you hear in them?'

People Me Speak You Go Want

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

Experience Words Story You Personal

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Michel de Montaigne

Myself Better Others Order Quote

You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.

Michael Ondaatje

Yourself Opinion Someone You Want

My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn't change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change - we can be miserable or we can be happy. It's what you make of your life.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Life Change Beautiful Day Happy

In L.A., you can play forever, and no one around the world will hear you.

World You Play Will Forever Hear

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Truth Face Body Joke Caricature

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

Douglas Coupland

Art College Loved Design Years Four

I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.

Deborah Ann Woll

Imagination Fun Think You Play True

On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.

Chris Bohjalian

Culture New York Parents City Me

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