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Jack Lemmon Quotes

I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.

Jack Lemmon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: February 8, 1925 - June 27, 2001

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Funny Father Mother Parents Remember

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Joe Orton

Envy Body Africa My Own More Own

Live TV, which is happening as you see it, is very exciting to do. Any mistake is seen by millions, and if there is a technical breakdown, one has to ad lib or improvise like mad.

Jimmy Savile

Live Mistake You Mad See Seen

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Jim Bishop

Future Power Time Fly Stand Retreat

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

John Crowe Ransom

Too Much Critic Poet Much Too

There are many hard truths that we must face in life.

Matt Hardy

Life Face Hard Must Many Truths

Al Qaeda's vision of global jihad doesn't resonate in the rugged highlands and windswept deserts of southern Afghanistan. Instead, the major concern throughout much of the country is intensely local: personal safety.

Anand Gopal

Vision Safety Country Personal Much

If you look at these bands like The Beatles, they did something that was new for that time, whether it was shocking or just a new direction that they were going.

Sonny Sandoval

Time Direction You Look New Going

I did nothing but international liberation politics for ten years, and usually it was like, you gain an inch, you lose a half an inch. It's slow going, man.

Steven Van Zandt

Politics Man Slow You Lose Nothing

Artists have historically understood images better than anyone else. This is what we do.

Trevor Paglen

Better Artists Understood Than Else

Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening, staying active and being creative so that when opportunities do come up, you are in a position to take advantage of them.

Tom Irwin

Time Gardening Creative Painting You

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Lucille Clifton

Life Poetry Language Matter Just

The lyrics are the essential part in our songs.

Lukas Forchhammer

Songs Lyrics Our Essential Part