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Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.


Bob Newhart
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I still don't think I'm a good actor. The only reason I'm doing it is because I've got a lot of support behind me.
Israel Broussard
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One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.
Penn Jillette
I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.
Charles Saatchi
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I used to swallow people's energies, and then I learned, as I got older, that I'm too sensitive, and I had to stop doing that. Now I don't take as much in.
Banks
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The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
Maureen Murphy
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We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.
Robert Trout
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The Harley's got a little too much torque when it comes to jumping.


Evel Knievel
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In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.
Jean Piaget
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.


Mae West
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High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.
Jodie Sweetin
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When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific joke, you can pretty much guess what it's going to be.
John Cleese
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I'm in a great position now where I've got recognition. I'm not recognized too much.


Kyle Chandler
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.


Jack Vance
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Too afraid of plagiarising someone, so I stopped reading fiction in 1981.


Robert Rankin
One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.
George Lucas
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.


Walter Benjamin
It's just too much if you make your career everything. It is everything when you're doing it. But you have to find things you love just as much.
Sandra Bullock
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The pollution problem is always seen as someone who was doing something bad that has to be stopped. To me, pollution is doing something bad and good. People don't pollute because they like polluting. They do it because it's a cheaper way of producing something else.
Ronald Coase
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Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.
Howard Hawks
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