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"I don't feel any pressure to be funny at all. I'm funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here and be serious for an hour and you would go away and make me much funnier than I am."
"Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away."
"When you go away for a month on tour, there's only so much information you can take in. You're traveling city by city every day. I think five of the 30 days you actually keep with you and the rest becomes mush. And when you get back you're really mushy."
"If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?"
"Children are the most honest critics. They will say "You're funny", but also "You're pathetic - go away.""
"Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?"
"It'll die down like every other genre, but horror has always been one of the four or five main genres that will never go away."
"You can't help some increase from this point. I don't want any viewer to go away think a magic wand exists in Congress. So they're going to see some more bad news. But if we do this, we're doing the right thing."
"Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it."
"You just say the word, and I'll make the rest of the world go away. I'll take you someplace safe, where no one else can reach us."
"The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight."
"Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed."
"I suffer from the sense that everything good in my life is about to go away."
"Dilbert: It took weeks but I've calculated a new theory about the origin of the universe. According to my calculations it didn't start with a "Big Bang" at all-it was more of "Phhbwt" sound. You may be wondering about the practical applications of the "Little Phhbwt" theory. Dogbert: I was wondering when you'll go away."
"Consequences don’t just go away. They aren’t suddenly dissolved just because forgiveness has been desired or given."
"If you're looking for a book that will spike in sales and then go away and then spike again when it comes out in paperback, your normal model, I definitely won't give you that."
"This connection we have isn't going away, it's only getting stronger. Because the more I spend time with her, the closer I want to be."
"Because who would ever want to get close to another person if they knew how hard the letting-go part was? In your heart they only die a little at a time, don't they? Like a plant when you go away on a trip and forget to ask a neighbor to poke in once in awhile with the old watering-can, and its so sad—"
"My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now."
"When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall."
