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Tom Lehrer Quotes

The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines.

Tom Lehrer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 9, 1928

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People Think Important Touch Jokes

I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.

Jessica Pare

School Whatever Production Nerd Did

Reinaldo Marcus Green - I'm so blessed an honored to have worked with him.

John David Washington

Green Blessed Him Honored Worked

I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.

Mel Smith

Think Enough Credit Movies London

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.

Maurice Ashley

Me Think Down Said Chess Kind

I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer.

Stephen Collins

Experience Me Chance Parent Laugh

We need schools like Doon and Mayo for the poor.

Shiv Nadar

Poor Need Like Mayo Schools

I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that's the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out laterally. You just have got to be brave enough to start without knowing where you are going.

Tom Stoppard

Best Experience Brave Writing Start

A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen.

Masaharu Morimoto

Kitchen Knife Without

I remember the first script I wrote after 'Swingers' was a Western, and I just couldn't get it made.

Jon Favreau

Remember First Get Just Made After

I needed to make the buyer happy: I needed to provide a price point and sort of a model that was attractive to them. But I also needed to make the contributor happy.

Jon Oringer

Happy Price Point Attractive Model

I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations.

David Steinberg

Job Play First Kid Jewish Slave

Because I like theatre and I love a challenge. With 'ZEBRA!' I've found a new Australian play where I can create a character first - that's what I live to do.

Bryan Brown

Love Live Character Challenge Play