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A lot of comics fly by the seat of their pants, and they pride themselves on being witty, quick, and off-the-cuff. That's not my show. I wrote a show, and I want to do the show I wrote. I'm not interested in what the audience has to say.

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Anything you get involved with, you are supposed to make money.

Joe Jackson

MoneyYouAnythingInvolvedGet

My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.

Matthew Pearl

TeacherSchoolAnimalHigh School

Retire? Me? I'll go when they get tired of me at Old Trafford or when I can no longer do the job.

Matt Busby

JobTiredMeI CanGoOld

There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, it's a vulnerable place to be in, it's a huge thing to do.

Ryan Adams

TimeWorldThinkMusiciansEnough

In 1991, my father passed away and I went on a spiritual quest. It was a light one, not too terribly deep because I'm not terribly deep, and neither was my father.

Mike Myers

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You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

Joseph Conrad

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In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

Jon Porter

CommunityWinnersJewishPrizeBeen

Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and motifs, give our children stuffed animals to clutch, cartoon animals to watch, animal stories to read.

Diane Ackerman

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For me, there's nothing more masculine than when I'm completely in control of my body and can call upon my body to do whatever I want it to do.

Derek Hough

MeControlBodyWantNothingMore

You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character in Shakespeare. Because here you have a thing that was not immured and preserved and mummified, but a voluble language, very active, very swift, very sharp.

Derek Walcott

CharacterPeopleLanguageTalking

Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy.

Bruce Rauner

GreatDisciplineTalentDedication

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you're not sleeping, you're not recovering. And if you're going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I'm up at 5:30 the next day.

Tom Brady

DaySleepMeBetterYouBody

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