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Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels.

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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.
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Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.
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You want me to admit I'm a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.
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