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Pretty Quotes


"The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise."


"We picked the Red Sox because they lose. If you root for something that loses for 86 years, you're a pretty good fan. You don't have to win everything to be a fan of something."


"Over the years, I have developed a pretty good Rolodex."


"If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero."


"It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else."


"We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good."


"I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things."


"But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script."


"Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think."


"Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog."


"I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record."


"I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely."


"I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking."


"I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty."


"Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds."


"I am pretty much a sucker any really bad reality television."



"I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right."


"They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring."


"With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well."


"Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in."


"What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock... and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone."


"I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude."


"We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic."


"Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded."


"It's like a candy store for an illustrator, I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the way J.K. described everything; she's such a visually thinking person. You can't pass that up."


"So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands."


"But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing."


"As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place."


"The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically."



"Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention."


"I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft."


"But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good."


"I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues."


"I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying."
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