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When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons.

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Harry Shearer
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 23
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Harry Julius Shearer
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Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later.
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Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.
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The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.
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The theater business is very much about Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in April.
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The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.
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Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform that he had a plan to end the Vietnam War. And, of course, his plan was to prolong it until his second election - but he didn't tell us that then.
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You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.
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When I was growing up, we learned our history almost as lives of the saints. And it came as a shock, Oh, Jefferson had slaves? It always comes as a shock to us that elevation to the White House didn't somehow cleanse them of all their deep character flaws.
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I was never into candy and games and clowns.
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I think in most cases, if you're with good people, comedy creation happens faster in collaboration. That's how I can tell if it's a good collaboration: If it's faster than me by myself, then it works. If it's slower than me by myself, then I get out of the room.
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I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.
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I would come back to public school for usually about half the year. It was actually better for me to be out of school a lot, because I was two years younger than everybody, which is a bad situation, socially.
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I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.
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If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.
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I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.
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The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.
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I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.
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I have a very strong visual memory of the first time I made him laugh. That was remarkable. I was like, Oh, God, I just made Jack Benny laugh.
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I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
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As a kid, I really did want to hang out with the grownups, so it was hanging out with the hippest grownups in the world. This was the nicest bunch of people I've worked with in show business, with the exception of the people around 'A Mighty Wind.' It really was a wonderful eight years.
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