Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
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You have to think you’re the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you’re not.
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Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It’s brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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That’s our mission: to clean and green New York City – one block at a time.
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When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.
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I have a ball – and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That’s my core business, and that’s where I’ll always return.
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There’s the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there’s the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn’t sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.
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Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there’s a seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes a rose.
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I feel like a million tonight – but one at a time.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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It’s important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish – and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can’t accomplish.
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I’ve always been lucky enough to have great audiences. It has been quite a life.
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It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
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The [film] business is run by men, and they’re basically interested in their own species, and they’re not so interested in women belonging to the human race.
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There’s a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don’t really do with your family.
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If you’re frightened, you’re out of luck.
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