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Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.

Mark Russell

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Mark Russell
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: August 23
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You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!
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I think even the characters that are fundamentally evil and wrong, I want people to really love them. I think that's important to writing believable characters. They don't have to be likable but they have to be loved, at least by the author.
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People are not in a good mood when any politician's face appears on television.
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The thing that you're faulted on today is not that you are too tough, or not that you aren't careful. It's that you might have been too soft. People want that red meat now because you have to keep up with the mood and the mood today is harsh. It really is.
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A Consultant is a guy who knows 125 different ways to make love, but who doesn't know any women.
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