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Paul Provenza Quotes

George Carlin maintained that anything and everything is funny given the right context. This context also includes your own history with a given group. What I can get away with and where I can go is not a problem with my audience because they know me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: July 31, 1957

Topics

Funny History Me Problem I Can Know

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

Tax Drink Pay Cannot Made General

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

Maynard James Keenan

History Government People Control

Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.

Wife Red Me Parent Sometimes Try

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

Stephen Spender

Dreams Son Child Mind Horse Wishes

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

Simone de Beauvoir

Love Serious Same Sense Divide Word

Independent films, for the most part, to me, are not so independent. They often feel like people auditioning for a big commercial career. They often do not have independent spirit to them.

People Me Feel Career Independent

When you look at the early-'30s movies, like King Kong, the codes of acting are very similar to those of silent movies. In some of the silent movies - the good ones, the ones done by the best directors - the acting is very, very natural.

Michel Hazanavicius

Good Best King You Look Acting

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.

Education Myself School Me Living

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

Be True True Write Remembered Wanted

I think relationships are broken up because of the media.

Broken Think Media Relationships Up

At the end of the day, I am going for all the belts, so I am going to have to go through all of them. And I would live to fight the U.K. guys - even in the U.K.

Live Day Fight I Am End Go

'Castaways' was a play on what if a reality show like 'Survivor' was unknowingly set on an island inhabited by a sub-human race of creatures? Readers have often asked me to consider turning the short story into a full-length novel. So I did.

Me Story Reality Short Play Island

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