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David Ives Quotes

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

David Ives

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: 1950

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Great Challenge Me Writing Comedy

I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.

Maurice Sendak

Artist Just Wanted Some Acknowledged

By the mid-17th century, telescopes had improved enough to make visible the seasonally growing and shrinking polar ice caps on Mars, and features such as Syrtis Major, a dark patch thought to be a shallow sea.

John Updike

Sea Thought Enough Ice Dark Growing

Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.

Ana Navarro

Politics American Hypocrisy Out Just

The most satisfying accomplishment for me was winning the British Open in 1996. But the most rewarding times were the times on the mini tours.

Tom Lehman

Me Winning Accomplishment Open Mini

I'd love to have been in things like 'The Jewel in the Crown,' but of course they're terribly old English. I can do that. But I'm not that.

Julia McKenzie

Love Crown I Can Old Things English

I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Live Parents College Night Year Out

If you don't have the love and support of your family, you need to find someone out there who you can confide in and share your concerns and worries with. And someone who can lift your spirits and make you feel valuable and strong and powerful.

Jazz Jennings

Family Love Support Strong Powerful

I'm not against anybody - everyone does what they need to do.

Jason Clarke

Need Everyone Against Anybody Does

I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark.

Cory Booker

Take Meant Grenade Newark Saving

My wife and children seem to like me quite a bit, and as long as that is true, I'm really OK.

Brian Williams

Children Wife Me Long True Seem

You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.

Anthony Kiedis

Love I Am Beer Me You Know

I have no cynicism at all.

Antony Sher

Cynicism