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"I was on the speech team, we called it forensics."
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"One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them."
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"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."
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"The talk that does not touch the world is called alaukik [that, which is beyond the world]."
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"We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech."
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"Spontaneous and natural (sahajik) speech means there is not an iota of ego in it."
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"To actively improve the worldand change your life as well,speak all the good you know,and all the bad refuse to tell."
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"Your words, your thoughts, your imagination: powerful tools. Remember that and use them wisely."
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"One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness."
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"Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth."
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"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things."
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"It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan."
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"There was so long from when we did the pilot and then when the show was eventually picked up by Comedy Central - and, in fact, we had to shoot the pilot twice."
Comedy
"Our reward for Starsky and Hutch was getting to write The Six Million Dollar Man for Todd."
Man
"Kerri and I met at theatre camp when were 16 years old, which is pretty lame. The rest of us met when we founded the State at New York University in 1988. Most of our adult lives have been spent bickering with these people."
People
"Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. It's a nice feeling."
Work
"Super Troopers is hilarious. Everybody always thought we somehow - we did Reno way, way before any of us had seen Super Troopers. It sat on the shelf for a couple years."
Thought
"That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years."
Movies
"The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague."
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"The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get."
Money
"We did one pilot for FOX which was about this couple that moves to a town, and we play everyone in the entire town. So it was like a Peter Sellers film."
Film
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