When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.
ALAN KINGMy mother’s sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
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I don’t mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
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When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
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My father helped me leave. He said, ‘It’s all out there, it’s not here.’
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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good.
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When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I’m going to have for dinner or I can’t get through the day.
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Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn’t know fluffy. Everything sank.
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There’s nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.
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The ability to absorb a book and make someone else’s words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
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Banks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
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I didn’t know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
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Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex.
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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
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The other day my house caught fire.
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One thing I’ve never said in my whole life is, ‘Let’s have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.’
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Let’s face it: It’s difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.
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