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"I was excellent at English and Drama. Maths and Science I was terrible at. I didn't have any interest in them. I was happiest at lunchtime, playing with my friends. But I love science now, that's the funny thing. And I'd be so good at geography, as I've been fortunate enough to travel the world."
"It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research."
"But the funny thing is, I broke my finger not on set doing kung fu. I broke my finger when I fell down the stairs prior to going on set."
"The funny thing is that some reviews are published in magazines and websites that are seen by millions of people, and other reviews are in very small publications or less popular websites, and you just have to be lucky to have the good reviews land in places where more people see them, and bad reviews land in places where they will be less seen."
"The funny thing about making this record and being away from the girls and on my own in LA is that it allowed me to reflect on how much we've accomplished."
"It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else."
"Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life saying the right thing at the right time is beyond crucial."
"Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!"
"The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour."
"It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time writing music. Instead, you go around the world selling the music you've already made."
"I'm always busy. You know, the more I do, the more ideas I have—that's the funny thing. The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body builder."
"The funny thing is that Sydney, who worked on the first film [Tron], developed a bike that had an exposed rider, but they couldn't do it because the computers weren't fast enough, so they gave it a roof, which became the iconic one. Ironically what we do now is basically what they envisioned in the first one but couldn't do technically. I mean this a full on homage in every aspect."
"The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors."
"The funny thing is that I had never actually watched TV."
"I'm just saying stupid, funny things when I'm hanging out on the TV show. When I'm making music I'm in a completely different zone."
"I keep getting more and more ambitious. Over the years, to some degree, in some areas, I feel I've grown. In some areas, I made a fool of myself. In some areas, I think I can still do some funny things."
"Dying men think of funny things-and that's what we all are here, aren't we? Dying men."
"I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I'm saving a lot of things, and I don't know what. I might even start reading books."
"I'm always doing what I can to look for and just feel out funny things that are happening in the scene and improvise off of them."
"Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride."
