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Quote by James Thurber
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so impor

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. – James Thurber

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All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first. – James Thurber

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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. – James Thurber

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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. – James Thurber

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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing? – Samuel Goldwyn

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I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. Its just so much better here than anywhere else. Its better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it. – Curtis Stone

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The day I finished Twilight, I came home and started bulking up. For New Moon, Im 30 pounds heavier than I was in Twilight. – Taylor Lautner

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When Im at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home. – Robert Duvall

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You cant wake up one day and say Im for gay marriage, and wake up the next day and say Im against it. Wake up one day and say, Im pro-choice, and the next day wake up and say, Im pro-life. Theres no credibility there. – Roger Stone

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It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe. – Albert J. Beveridge

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