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I'd always loved radio. I loved Bob And Ray. I loved Stan Freberg.
Harry Shearer
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Harry Shearer
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 23
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Harry Julius Shearer
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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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The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.
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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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I was never into candy and games and clowns.
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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've got an odd, negative bond with C. Montgomery Burns. He reminds a lot of people of bosses they've worked for. He certainly reminds me of someone I'm working for.
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To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.
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If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.
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Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of work. You're in this business for people to know what you do and like it.
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Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.
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My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.
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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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Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are it's about the situation they're in.
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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 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 act of getting married, stripped of the necessity to have a secure setting to raise children, seems to me no less grim than registering your emotions with the government.
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If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.
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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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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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