"The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.]"
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"Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know."
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"What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?"
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"When a show fails to destroy the competition-and it can fail while attracting 20 million viewers-it is itself destroyed."
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"I learned a lot. I knew I had a lot to learn because it's been so long, but that sure did show up there today."
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"Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here."
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"Show me that you are redeemed, and I will believe in your Redeemer."
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"I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?"
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"Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us."
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"My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows."
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"The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects."
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"If someone says can't, that shows you what to do."
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"Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus."
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"I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more."
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"The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form."
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"There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work."
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"So a lot of our shows where even we think we've taken a very deliberate stand, liberals say, 'That's awesome, you took on the conservatives' same show and conservatives say 'That's awesome, you took on liberals.'"
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"In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that."
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"Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place."
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"I’m gonna show you how great I am."
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