Michael Spiller Quotes

If the setups take too long, you wind up losing momentum. Momentum is very good for comedy. Not having to do eight setups in a single scene and have it take five hours is very good for comedy.

Michael Spiller

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Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.

Jimmy Durante

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As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.

Joe Slovo

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There is so much cross-pollination between the U.S. and Britain in terms of comedians. British TV comedies work well in the U.S. American stand-ups make it big in Britain.

John Oliver

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And, believe me; they will do everything to cover this up.

Sibel Edmonds

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Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.

Tom Brokaw

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My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Russell M. Nelson

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At 16, I got into local-education archaeology classes - you got to go to summer digs. It allowed me to be both intellectual and a bad girl with a wicked social life every evening!

Mary Beard

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The more people come out, the less it will be an issue.

Martina Navratilova

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Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

Don Cornelius

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Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

Dr. Seuss

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I just made the decision that I was going to try comedy, and if didn't work, then I knew it didn't work. Then I would go back and do whatever. But at least I wouldn't torture myself the rest of my life, wondering whatever would have happened.

Bob Newhart

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I usually get approached by older white ladies of a certain class, with their pearls and, you know, their Talbots on and everything, and they're like, 'We just have to say, we know we're not your demographic, but we love Paper Boi; we really love this show, and we love what you're doing.' It's totally cool.

Brian Tyree Henry

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