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"I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days."
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"Then after that came word processors and it's hard to make those laugh."
Humor
"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
"There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car."
Car
"I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny."
Fun
"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
"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 defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days."
Decision-Making
"And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy."
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"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."
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Personal Development
"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."
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Personal Development
"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions."
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Personal Development
"They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned."
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Personal Development
"One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice."
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Personal Development
"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
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Personal Development
"The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction."
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Personal Development
"This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue."
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Personal Development
"Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can."
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Personal Development
"I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants."
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Personal Development
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