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Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
Carl Reiner
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Carl Reiner
Age: 98 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 20
Died: 2020
Died: June 29
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My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.
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When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.
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I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, Where does this go?
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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
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I've done everything I've wanted to do. I have three children, I have grandchildren, I have books, I did movies, I've directed movies, I've done almost everything I've wanted to do.
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I am an atheist. I have a very different take on who God is. Man invented God because he needed him. God is us.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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I love tweeting. I tweet every day. I stay in contact, I tell them what I'm doing. I've posted pictures of my books on there and they buy the books. It's a very good way to communicate with people, but I can't go to bed without tweeting something. I have to tweet something.
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I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great language - I'm very ordinary.
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You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.
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I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15 things I know about God, and one is that he is allergic to shellfish. There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody.
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Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important.
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I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.
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Shared joy is a double joy shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.
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A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.
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I'm a charming coward I fight with words.
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I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.
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When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write.
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An attitude will give you heft.
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