Martin Short Quotes

Anytime there's originality and comedy combined, it's very potent for people who love comedy.

Martin Short

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 26, 1950

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Robert Schumann

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If you stand for something you will have people for you and people against you. But if you stand for nothing you will have nobody for you and nobody against you.

Maurice Saatchi

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I was honestly never a huge school person.

Anna Paquin

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The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

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In 1911, Edgar Rice Burroughs, having failed at everything else, decided to write a novel. He was then in his mid-thirties, married with two children, barely supporting his family as the agent for a pencil-sharpener business.

Michael Dirda

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Bowie's 'Hunky Dory' influenced me. 'Ziggy Stardust' influenced Johnny Ramone a lot, especially his guitar parts.

Tommy Ramone

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Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.

Robert Englund

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Money and success haven't really changed my beliefs or opinions over the years. When I was growing up, my mum and dad split when I was 13 or 14, during the early-Nineties recession. At that time, my dad went bankrupt, and it played a huge part in it all at home.

Matt Bellamy

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What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous.

Jonathan Galassi

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As a writer, I always peel back the layers, go to the most sensitive places uncomfortably close to the heart.

Derek Cianfrance

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The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It's sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible.

Deryck Whibley

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The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.

Donald Pleasence

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