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What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without m

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. – Steve Martin

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You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. – Steve Martin

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I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. – Steve Martin

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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, Gods grandchild. – Dante Alighieri

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A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, The Clock is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself – something almost inhuman. – Jerry Saltz

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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. – Susan Sontag

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Art

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. – Salma Hayek

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Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration. – Peter Drucker

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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. – Amelia E. Barr

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The answer to poverty is not charity, the solution to abortion is not laws, the key to saving the environment is not recycling. As Thoreau so wisely noted, we must strike at the root, not hack at the branches. – Terri Guillemets, “Comfort is not always the best medicine,” 1995

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Dont be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own. – Peter Jennings

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