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Jonathan Winters Quotes

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

Jonathan Winters

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: November 11, 1925 - April 11, 2013

Topics

Discipline Tough Rebel Guy Who

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.

Together Wall Mean Ball Up Against

In my day, when I was a young kid, army duty was compulsory in South Africa or you go to jail. I had the choice, so I spent a year in the entertainment unit, and outside of doing shows - and I used to write for, arrange for the big band - outside of doing that, I actually had a rock band in the army.

Day Doing Year You Choice Young

There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.

Life Time World Start Think You

I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with a good answer when asked what that book is about.

Good Book Now Years Out Up

I worked myself into a frenzy. By 1996, I had a nervous breakdown just from working. I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, just getting anxiety attacks and all of that stuff because I was doing too much, too young, all the time.

Dolores O'Riordan

Time Myself Sleep Anxiety Doing Eat

Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain.

Douglas Coupland

Personality Brain Now Will Away

We were like bishops of opposite color.

Color Opposite Like Were Bishops

The relationship between critic and writer is similar to the one between the pigeon and the statue.

Relationship Statue Critic Pigeon

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Publilius Syrus

Eyes Mind Seeing Responsible Does

I may have been sexy, but I was covered up total. There was something left to the imagination.

Imagination Sexy Up May Something

I want to have a cultural impact. I want to be an inspiration, to show people what can be done.

People Impact Done Want Inspiration

I take things that already exist and just push them.

Push Things Take Exist Just Them

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