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"I'd love to be a memorable figure in the history of entertainment in some sexual, comic, tragic way. I'd like to leave the impression that Marilyn Monroe did, to be able to arouse so many different feelings in people."
"It's not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying."
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."
"The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next."
"The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night... All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere. The Vedas say, “All intelligences awake with the morning."
"Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds."
"My most memorable dunk, that I think about very, very often, is the Patrick Ewing dunk."
"Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales."
"If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable."
"The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working."
"The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it."
"What a deformed thief this fashion is."
"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round."
"How use doth breed a habit in a man."
"The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept."
"People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House."
"I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people."
"I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it."
"My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed."
"If we are a good team and know what we want to do, one of us can defeat tons of them."
