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"I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive."
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"I sing in the car if I'm in LA, because you're like soundproofed."
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"One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with."
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"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."
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"I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime."
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"One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car."
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"We had the guys from X Men 2 do the cameras. They had a 360 camera that would go from one car, up in the air and over to another car in a continuous shot while the film was still rolling, going 90 mph."
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"Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president."
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"The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam."
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"In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it."
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"And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy."
Work

"I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny."
Fun

"It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered."
Family

"If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it."
Laughter

"The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up."
Money

"I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days."
Decision-Making

"There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car."
Car

"Frank liked administrative work and was good at it."
Work

"Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh."
Humor

"And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out."
Fun
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