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Comedy Writer Inspirational Quotes (429)

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In a dream world, I would love to be a master pastry chef, because it combines something I love doing baking with something I'm not good at doing baking. BUT! Practically, if I weren't writing and doing comedy things, I'd like to teach kids to read. I would be good at that in real life.
Josh Gondelman
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High thoughts must have high language.
Aristophanes
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Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
Plautus
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That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
Plautus
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Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.
Plautus
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If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.
Plautus
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I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.
Antonin Artaud
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Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.
Menander
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To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
Antonin Artaud
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris, Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.]
Plautus
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He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
Plautus
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Not well-built walls, but brave citizens are the bulwark of the city.
Alcaeus
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Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.
Alcaeus
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Fighting men are the city's fortress.
Alcaeus
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Plant no tree sooner than the vine.
Alcaeus
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To be bowed by grief is folly Naught is gained by melancholy Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
Alcaeus
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. Lat.
Plautus
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
Antonin Artaud
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Feast today makes fast tomorrow
Plautus
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It's really just a freedom that we have with Amazon to push ourselves creatively. It allowed me to say, you know, okay this is going to be a little half-hour film here to start the season.
Jill Soloway
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The past, the future: - two eternities!
Thomas Moore
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[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.
Antonin Artaud
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
Aristophanes
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We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul.
Thomas Moore
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