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"I love doing the readings. The readings are the fun bits... The readings are probably the things that actually keep me going on these. If I couldn't do the readings, I wouldn't do the [signing] tours. I get to stand up there and read to a bunch of adults who in many cases nobody's read to in years, since they were about five. They just squat on the floor. That's enormously enjoyable."
"Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones."
"I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before."
"I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and thats really motivating."
"It would be easier if I didn't even make the playoffs, it would hurt less. But then I start thinking about how much fun it is."
"The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals."
"And off we go, out onto the highway looking for a little fun. Perhaps a flatbed truck loaded with human cadavers will explode in front of a Star Trek reunion. One can only dream and hope."
"My fun days are over."
"Everyone has to suffer the gimmicks and other stunts and machinations when they're starting out - only at the time, it doesn't feel like suffering; it's fun and different then. But a little fame goes a long way, and then one tries to cast off part of the heavy burden - a burden one can never totally escape."
"Being a movie star was never as much fun as dreaming of being one."
"It's not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do - everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls."
"Golf is a diabolical game. It's easy to make fun of something that's so bizarre, so painful, so humiliating... yet so joyous."
"And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate."
"Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation."
"We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it."
"The more you learn about yourself and your family tree, your self-esteem goes up. They will learn archival skills, historical analysis and science skills. You learn all this in the most seductive way, and that is through learning about yourself. Who doesn't like talking about themselves? It doesn't seem like science or history, it's just fun."
"If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events."
"I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at."
"He had as much fun in the water as any person I have known. You didn't have to throw a stick in the water to get him to go in. Of course, he would bring back a stick to you if you did throw one in. He would even have brought back a piano if you had thrown one in."
"I don't really write for fun; it's not an enjoyable experience. For me, art, or whatever the hell it is I do, has always been a refuge from that which makes me want to tear my lungs out. That's why I play like I play; I'm not into entertainment."
