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Harland Williams Quotes

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

Harland Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: canadian
Birth: November 14, 1962

Topics

Roots Fly You Involved Just Very

I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you've been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things... Of course, all that influenced me quite a lot as a child.

Future Great Child Me You Strange

I wrote a pilot for myself. It's about a Latina actress trying to make it in Hollywood. It's pretty funny.

Funny Myself Trying Pilot Hollywood

Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them.

America Obesity Taxes Gone Industry

Life is extremely complicated.

Life Complicated Extremely

Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you something you would actually need, like a hammer or a broom or a toothbrush. But now there's this notion that they can sell you anything. And all they have to do is convince you that you need it.

Past People You Now Say Need

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

Back Find Will Who Soon Contempt

When the Egyptians decide something, probably it is not appropriate for the U.S. When the Americans decide something, this, of course, is not appropriate for Egypt.

Egypt Decide Something Course

They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and led up the garden path by the story and ultimately have a jolly good laugh!

Good Path Story Laugh Garden Up

What can happen if a young reader picks up a book he/she isn't yet ready for? Questions, maybe. Usually, that child puts down the book and says, 'Boring.' Or, 'I'm not ready for this.' Kids are really good at knowing what they can handle.

Good Child Book Questions Down Up

Beginning a poem, the poet as a rule doesn't know the way it's going to come out, and at times, he is very surprised by the way it turns out, since often it turns out better than he expected; often his thought carries further than he reckoned.

Beginning Thought Better Know Way

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character, and then he is never made radically better for its influence.

Fear Character Man Influence Better

My background with acting is deeply interwoven with my family life and my childhood. It's a 'Peter Pan'-like narrative, something that was golden but could also be a bit dubious.

Life Family Childhood Acting Golden

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