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Jerry said if anyone ever found out how much fun we were having, we'd have to pay an entertainment tax.


Juli Dahl

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ANDREW GORDON I can't tell you how much fun we have.
LYNDA SCHMIDT I wasn't sure how much he'd have left in his tank. We found out he had just enough.
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DAISY FUENTES I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.
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JULI DAHL We've used all kinds of resources to furnish this place.
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TONY PITTMAN This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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KIM PETERSEN This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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DYLAN PENN If you owe money, and you know you owe money, you have to pay 90 percent of your tax.
JO ELLEN HUGHES I'd rather have to pay that then a sales tax.
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COURTNEY JACOB Now you know," I said lightly, and shrugged. "No one's ever loved anyone as much as I love you.
STEPHENIE MEYER It is hard to say how much we are liable to pay.
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ELIZABETH DAHL He didn't smoke or drink. He had low cholesterol. He worked out and walked a lot -- he didn't really...
ELIZABETH DAHL It means a lot to know his memory is as alive for other people as it is for us.
ELIZABETH DAHL Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
ROALD DAHL If you can think of anything more terrifying than that happening to you in the middle of the night, ...
ROALD DAHL You're walking around here with a smile on your face, Asher. It's freaking everybody out.
VICTORIA DAHL Aw, hell, Tessa. I was in ninth grade. By the time I got to the part where I imagined a girl without...
VICTORIA DAHL The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to hi...
ROALD DAHL When we beat North Dakota here in 2001.
CRAIG DAHL The atmosphere in here (Friday) was electric. That was my second-favorite game ever.
CRAIG DAHL Up here it's a little different because you're not so emotionally involved in the game. You're not a...
CRAIG DAHL Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy ...
ROALD DAHL It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself
ROALD DAHL ¿Os dais cuenta cabal de la cadena de crímenes tramados por la nena? Crimen número uno: la acusad...
ROALD DAHL I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.
ROALD DAHL Ik heb gemerkt, juffrouw Engel, in mijn lange loopbaan in het onderwijs, dat een rotmeisje veel geva...
ROALD DAHL I have two of them in the morning. I enjoy it for breakfast. It can be a treat.
ERIC DAHL It was used and it worked yesterday.
ERIC DAHL They basically backed the truck right out of the building.
ERIC DAHL Yesterday's fire showed that nobody is immune to fire.
ERIC DAHL Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus...
ROALD DAHL Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous...
ROALD DAHL What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.
ROALD DAHL I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?
ROALD DAHL In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. S...
ROALD DAHL Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment ...
ROALD DAHL There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to ...
ROALD DAHL I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you g...
ROALD DAHL There aren’t many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,’ Matilda said.
‘Do you think that all ...
ROALD DAHL There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!"
-Harry ...
ROALD DAHL A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Loo...
ROALD DAHL All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they wou...
ROALD DAHL I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, a...
ROALD DAHL Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make s...
ROALD DAHL