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"In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment."
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"Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke."
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"I hate comedy... Yo...-yo bitch."
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"It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway."
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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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"Have a chocolate-covered raisin, he said."They look like rat droppings, said the Chair.The Dean peered at them in the gloom."So that's it, he said. "The bag fell on the floor a minute ago, and I thought there seemed rather a lot."
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"I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy."
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"There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that."
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"Uh-oh, I hope he doesn't start rattling off dirty limericks next; she'll probably burn the hotel down."
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"Are you out of your goddamn mind? You think we can take on two hundred soldiers? I know I am an extremely attractive man, J, but I am not Bruce Lee."Who's Bruce Lee?"Who's Bruce Lee? Kenji asks, horrified. "Oh my God. We can't even be friends anymore."Why? Was he a friend of yours?"You know what, he says, "just stop. Just-I can't even talk to you right now."
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"I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight."
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"Has made an honest woman of the supernatural."
Supernatural
"In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time."
Life
"Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time."
Poetry
"I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time."
Life
"Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing."
Death
"Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith."
Faith
"Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly."
Imagination
"The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can."
Home
"The dark is light enough."
Light
"The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school."
Disgrace
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