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"Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car."
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"If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space."
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"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set."
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"The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers."
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"Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!"
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"America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."
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"We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment."
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"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."
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"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
"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
"Frank liked administrative work and was good at it."
Work
"If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it."
Laughter
"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
"I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny."
Fun
"Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh."
Humor
"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
"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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