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Martin Short Quotes

When kids like Steven Spielberg were eight and nine and 10, they had little cameras, and that's all they wanted to do. When I was 10, I was in my attic pretending to host my own variety show. Spielberg wasn't. That's why he's a film director, and I'm doing what I'm doing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Doing Why My Own Director Pretending

First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.

Win Wall Vote Street First Catering

For the FBI and for the United States, the war on terrorism is a complex and perplexing issue. It is as complex and perplexing as any issue we have ever faced.

War Terrorism FBI Complex United

I got pile drived in '96 or '97 and was a quadriplegic for about a minute and a half. I couldn't move anything. It was in the Meadowlands at a pay per view with a million or two people watching, and I couldn't move. That cost me a surgery, but I healed pretty quickly, so that was probably my worst day at the office.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Day People Me View Worst Office

I'd watch the news with my dad, and he'd quietly mock the anchors. An anchorman might say, 'Police are searching for...' and my dad would say in the anchorman's voice, 'the man who gave me this haircut.' This was in the real Ron Burgundy '70s. And I would laugh and start doing it myself.

Myself Police Man Me Start Haircut

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.

Childhood Me Mom Strong You Know

Hamilton was extremely combative. Not only was he combative, but he also overreacted to anything he perceived as a threat or a criticism.

Criticism Anything Only Threat He

There's something rare and wonderful that's very particular to television, and it's when a great cast meets a great show runner/creator with the right set of characters to play. That's what happened with 'Arrested Development.' It happens every so often, but all too rarely on TV.

Great Television Play Development

You know what ends up on the markdown racks? All the weird colors. Guys don't wear orange or citron.

Colors Weird You Know Orange Up

When knowledge no longer becomes the commodity of the few, but in a sense becomes equalized by everyone having access, you lose some aspect of Jewish particularity, or at least a Jewish particularity that is fundamental to the construct of Jews as people of the book, which was always interesting.

Knowledge People Book Interesting

After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we're going to win this war.

Janis Karpinski

Focus War Me Win Find Security

Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.

Douglas Coupland

Good Interesting Wish You Find Stop

After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.

Winning Feel You Over Minutes After

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