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Margaret Halsey

"The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner."

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"As if I'd had time to drug it in the two milliseconds she'd let me out of her sight."

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"I never watch comedies they suck if something sucks it sucks there isn't doubt about it."

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"I hate comedy... Yo...-yo bitch."

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"Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy."

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"Now, if you have never been hit by a flying burrito, count yourself lucky. In terms of deadly projectiles, it's right up there with grenades and cannonballs."

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"Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue."

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"I got everybody on my side through comedy."

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"Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."
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"I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it."
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"In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated."
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"Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity."
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"The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner."
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