Woody Allen Quotes

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

Woody Allen

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This business is crazy-pants. We flit in and out of these fantasy worlds and these intense periods of work and camaraderie, and then it goes away, and you do it all over again.

Jessie Mueller

WorkBusinessYouFantasyOverOut

Women have it better in tennis than any other sport, but you shouldn't push them to play more than they're capable of playing.

John McEnroe

WomenBetterPushYouPlayTennis

Journalism is, indeed, a noble calling, and I have much I hope to accomplish in the next phase of my career.

Steve Capus

HopeJournalismAccomplishCareer

There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place.

Shimon Peres

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I think the thumb print on the throat of many people is childhood trauma that goes unprocessed and unrecognized.

Tom Hooper

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I'm lucky that I have whatever I had that makes me have a successful career, if you will.

Robert De Niro

MeYouCareerWillLuckyWhatever

I think people try to make the most of their time on Earth and also to 'fix' their time on Earth.

Mary Gaitskill

TimePeopleThinkEarthTryFix

I know there's pros and cons to Trump, and people talk crap that he's had a lot of failed businesses, but failing a lot sometimes means you've tried more. And a lot of those people have succeeded more times than they failed.

Miesha Tate

PeopleYouKnowSometimesTalkMore

You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.

Michel Houellebecq

AttitudeDeathCrazyFaceYouRebel

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'

Mitch Albom

SportsMyselfPeopleStoryPlaySay

I'm proud of what I look like. I'm proud that I look like my mom.

Lisa Guerrero

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I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it.

Lisa Marie Presley

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