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Fred Silverman (then-president of NBC) first saw the characters of Laverne and Shirley on 'Happy Days' and thought it would make a good series.


Eddie Mekka

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KELLY JONES One of the first shows I ever did was 'Laverne & Shirley.' I played this sleazy guy that...
FRED WILLARD Growing up, I used to watch 'Happy Days,' 'Laverne & Shirley,' 'All in the F...
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ROD COLEMAN The image that Milwaukee has as a 'Laverne & Shirley' town, as a Rust Belt city, is still a predomin...
REBECCA RYAN You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS He is a man of great personal power, honor and honesty. I saw in him a really good man who would mak...
DENNIS HAYSBERT Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS I can't deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. An...
DWAYNE JOHNSON Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
SARAH J. MAAS Shirley Temple doesn't hurt Shirley Temple Black. Shirley Temple helps Shirley Temple Black. She...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE You were many wonderful things to many people before you met him--don't let this one event define wh...
MARY ESSELMAN And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three red-headed men were grouped on th...
J.K. ROWLING We had a pitch count and we felt Eddie was getting a little tired there. I think he walked three bat...
JASON BRANDT She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN 'Emeril' came on the air right when a new president of NBC was taking over, and there was ju...
CARRIE PRESTON I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have...
LEMONY SNICKET Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA When you're dealing with someone like Shirley, it's a little insulting to ask her to come in for a m...
CURTIS HANSON Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
ANTHONY BURGESS There is a lot of pressure in the first series and I thought it was better that they sat it out.
KAREN STUPPLES The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch ...
AMY POEHLER I thought it was going to be just like the others: A couple of days, the electricity would go out, a...
FERNANDO MARTINEZ Because there were so few blacks here then, in the 1980s, Shirley saw that missing here. She felt no...
LEE COX Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES I've told everybody I'll keep an open mind. I'm happy with NBC, NBC is happy with me. They've offere...
JOE SCARBOROUGH You come out those first couple of days (of conditioning drills) and people want to know how everybo...
JAY RICHARDSON Coach Helfer was recruiting another player on the team and he saw me play and he liked me. I wasn't ...
DOMINIQUE HOLMES Ask us no questions and we’ll tell you no lies.
J.K. ROWLING Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I have just arrived. But yes, I would like to do something (before the series begins on October 25)....
GREG CHAPPELL Life depends on you and your choices. The real value of your life largely depends on what you do wit...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You bet. We own the Titans. I remember the good old days when I would blow up Eddie George with a bi...
RAY LEWIS I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ...
PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS They say that a part of you dies when a special Loved One passes away...I disagree...I say a part of...
DANIEL YANEZ Every new & successful example therefore of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and c...
JAMES MADISON That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Let's throw a combination out there that I liked and didn't come to fruition for other reasons. If I...
LANNY WADKINS Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�...
CHERYL R COWTAN I think that (my character) President David Palmer was the voice of conscience on that series, and i...
DENNIS HAYSBERT People thought it was a brothel at first. They saw all the pulleys on the wall and heard women groan...
DOMINIQUE DAY I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Someone laughed behind Harry. Turning, he saw Fred, George, and Lee Jordan hurrying down the stairca...
J.K. ROWLING I remember Eddie when we drafted him to the Giants out of Stanford, and he was another free-spirited...
CHARLIE WEIS This is a series of photo-ops entirely driven by polls that tell the president that he isn't doing e...
PHILIP CLAPP I still felt it was a series, so I woke up every morning at 4:30 before I went to my other job and I...
GREG GARCIA My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead...
LARK VOORHIES Fred and George turned to each other and said together, “Wow — we’re identical!
J.K. ROWLING It wasn't looking nearly as serious at first. I packed for a few days. I thought school would be ope...
JACK CURRY After all of this, first as a man and a Serb, then as a father, brother and son, and only then as th...
DRAGAN CAVIC I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?"
"You could try rubbing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Everybody's been saying that since the day we started shooting it and when I wrote it that it would ...
CAMERON WATSON I was so sad that 'Best Friends Forever' got cancelled. I thought it was a great show and NB...
ERINN HAYES It is always good to win the first match of the series,
MARVAN ATAPATTU I was on the cusp - or thought I was on the cusp - of celebrity, the result of starring as an adorab...
ROBERT ENGLUND I came to Southbury because I wanted to live a more simple life. When I was a child, I saw lots of m...
POLLY BERGEN When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we f...
PAUL RYAN I feel like my experience on 'Community' was that I saw just how important that first year i...
JIM RASH Who is the first farmer? The good book says: God planted a garden. So God is the first, then Adam, a...
SOTONYE ANGA The ratification process will decide whether the United States would remain a system of patchwork an...
HUGH WILLIAMSON She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN As I'm sure you know, whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn m...
LEMONY SNICKET Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family...
LEMONY SNICKET I just don't understand it," said Klaus, which was not something he said very often.
Violet nod...
LEMONY SNICKET The president narrated most of the incidents in the series and he even knew what type of wickets we ...
G.S. WALIA You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I'm glad Kanye said what he said on NBC. The president never gave a damn about black folks.
DAVID BANNER I thought she had caught it and then I looked back at her and saw she was going to throw it to first...
MALLORY RUHL I thought it was a strong night for the Republicans, John McCain talking about national security def...
STUART ROTHENBERG If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then th...
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EDDIE VEDDER If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.
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EDDIE VEDDER You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amo...
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EDDIE VEDDER I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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EDDIE VEDDER When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive mu...
EDDIE VEDDER Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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EDDIE VEDDER Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
EDDIE VEDDER The love received is the love that is saved.
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EDDIE SLOVIK I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
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EDDIE SLOVIK Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.
EDDIE SLOVIK Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
EDDIE SLOVIK Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.
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EDDIE RICKENBACKER I am not a labor hater.
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EDDIE RICKENBACKER I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
EDDIE RICKENBACKER Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
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EDDIE REDMAYNE If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
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EDDIE REDMAYNE And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world want...
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EDDIE PEREZ Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
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EDDIE PEREZ A lapse in judgment is not a crime.
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EDDIE MURRAY It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.
EDDIE MURRAY Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.
EDDIE MURRAY Baseball is a team game.
EDDIE MURRAY No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven he...
EDDIE MURRAY When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.
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EDDIE MONEY It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.
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EDDIE MCCLINTOCK You know, I Google search my own name because I'm so self-obsessed!
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EDDIE MATHEWS My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.
EDDIE MARSAN I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very luc...
EDDIE MARSAN I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
EDDIE MARSAN I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny - I looked like me.
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EDDIE MARSAN With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm go...
EDDIE MARSAN I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terribl...
EDDIE MARSAN I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, ...
EDDIE MARSAN What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. ...
EDDIE MARSAN I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East E...
EDDIE MARSAN In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare....
EDDIE MARSAN I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me.
EDDIE MARSAN I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.
EDDIE MARSAN As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming a...
EDDIE MARSAN I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 1...
EDDIE MARSAN If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then...
EDDIE MARSAN I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to b...
EDDIE MARSAN The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky...
EDDIE MARSAN There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard...
EDDIE MARSAN I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it'...
EDDIE MARSAN I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who coul...
EDDIE MARSAN Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I s...
EDDIE MARSAN The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
EDDIE MARSAN Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
EDDIE IZZARD I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
EDDIE IZZARD If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefu...
EDDIE IZZARD I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between ...
EDDIE IZZARD I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the botto...
EDDIE IZZARD Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
EDDIE IZZARD I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.
EDDIE IZZARD I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everyt...
EDDIE IZZARD MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police w...
EDDIE IZZARD Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music writt...
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