Abe Burrows on able
Abe Burrows8 quotes“You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I’ve never been able to teach anyone.”
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Glamour: the indefinable something about a girl with a big bosom.
Abe BurrowsAbe Burrows You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.
Abe BurrowsAbe Burrows Just take a big belly laugh. I have watched people laughing, and for a moment they look-and are-absolutely helpless. . You can be assaulted while you are laughing.
Abe BurrowsAbe Burrows The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously.
Abe BurrowsAbe Burrows It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial.
Abe BurrowsAbe Burrows Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.
Abe BurrowsAbe Burrows Vulnerability..You can be assaulted while you are laughing.
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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
Agnes VardaAgnes Varda This time, I wanted to know if I was able to create images with words, with the sound of words.
Agnes ObelAgnes Obel You’d think that you’d be able to convey more through dialogue.
Adrien BrodyAdrien Brody It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish (“pourront être édifiées”, Fr.) the real basis of morality.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards (“marcher vers”, Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.
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Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
Adrian TomineAdrian Tomine I thrive on being able to make a way out of no way.
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