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I think the incorporation issue is going to be a hot issue, not just in Celebration and Poinciana, b...
MEL PEARLMAN

I think it's worth the community looking into, although it may not be right for us. Right now, we're...
MEL PEARLMAN

The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its min...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition b...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity ...
EDITH PEARLMAN

There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
EDITH PEARLMAN

Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit...
EDITH PEARLMAN

In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as ...
EDITH PEARLMAN

The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devo...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'...
EDITH PEARLMAN

I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, m...
EDITH PEARLMAN

The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.
EDITH PEARLMAN

I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it w...
EDITH PEARLMAN

Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,'...
EDITH PEARLMAN

All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
EDITH PEARLMAN

We have a couple guys who wear their hearts on their sleeves. That's just who they are.
JON PEARLMAN

This guy spent his early days watching his father not have to lift a thumb in the clubhouse. He gets...
JEFF PEARLMAN

The kids have an opportunity this weekend to surprise some teams from the Midwest. Last year, we cam...
DAVID PEARLMAN

If the goal of his bill was to reduce premiums, it doesn't do that. This bill hurts the working peop...
DAVID PEARLMAN

The perfect may be the enemy of the good.
DAVID PEARLMAN

We could see he was lost. We waited a few minutes to see if someone would come to get him, and when ...
DAVID PEARLMAN

We know that freedom has a price. Democracy has a price. But maybe we paid a price that is higher th...
WENDY PEARLMAN

They wrote us a letter in 2004 suggesting that the mother of this client came forward in 1990 and . ...
MARC PEARLMAN

After (aspiring artists) are on American Idol , what show do you appear on? This is the next level o...
LOU PEARLMAN

I tried to be as thorough as possible.
JEFF PEARLMAN

I see this as her city in the years to come. I just kind of see it as a rare opportunity to help sha...
JEFF PEARLMAN

I know I'm not everybody's cup of tea. I'm just me.
MEL B

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
MEL BROOKS

Immortality is a by-product of good work.
MEL BROOKS

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKS

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKS

When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.
MEL B

I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.
MEL TORME

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.
MEL GIBSON

Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you've got to fla...
MEL BROOKS

I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly w...
MEL BROOKS

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is h...
MEL BROOKS

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writ...
MEL BROOKS

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.
MEL GIBSON

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.
MEL LAZARUS

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
MEL BROOKS

Let
MEL BROOKS

I
MEL GIBSON

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your a...
MEL BROOKS

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKS

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
MEL BROOKS

It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority fo...
MEL MARTINEZ

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
MEL GIBSON

Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a l...
MEL GIBSON

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want...
MEL GIBSON

All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me...
MEL BROOKS

It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistake...
MEL GIBSON

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But i...
MEL BROOKS

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a...
MEL GIBSON

I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terror...
MEL GIBSON

I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's...
MEL GIBSON

I did not want to lose sight of the fact that for every criminal I have to deal with, no matter how ...
MELISA MEL

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up hi...
MEL BROOKS

I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.
MEL BROOKS

For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for d...
MEL CARNAHAN

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with...
MEL CARNAHAN

Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare reci...
MEL CARNAHAN

I don't have to be working every moment. Why turn something good into a hard job? It's more ...
MEL GIBSON

Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within...
MEL MARTINEZ

What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them i...
MEL GIBSON

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that neve...
MEL BROOKS

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I do...
MEL TORME

I wish I was better looking.
MEL BROOKS

You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
MEL BROOKS

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performanc...
MEL BROOKS

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.
MEL BROOKS

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
MEL BROOKS

Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a f...
MEL MARTINEZ

There could be no better time to fully integrate Infinity with Viacom's tremendous portfolio of ...
MEL KARMAZIN

A brushstroke of vanity is good to add into the mix, to balance your timidity. We're all blessed...
MEL BROOKS

And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to...
MEL TILLIS

We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil soc...
MEL MARTINEZ

I think the 'Lethal Weapon' movies contain my favorite performances. It sounds really crummy...
MEL GIBSON

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stutt...
MEL TILLIS

We are aware that many national farm organizations are putting forth various plans to provide both s...
MEL CARNAHAN

There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on whic...
MEL TORME

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mist...
MEL BROOKS

I think digital will displace film, yes. We're talking about digital as a thing of the future, b...
MEL GIBSON

I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion...
MEL GIBSON

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yo...
MEL BROOKS

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
MEL BROOKS

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function wit...
MEL GIBSON

I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven't done before.
MEL GIBSON

I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you ...
MEL BROOKS

That's it baby, when you got it, flaunt it.
MEL BROOKS

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
MEL BROOKS

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
MEL BROOKS

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
MEL BROOKS

When we're playing well together we just want to keep getting the ball. You just keep feeding off it...
MEL THOMAS

My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she ...
MEL B

Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if ...
MEL GIBSON

We know what it's about and Fort Macleod has been there a few years ago too, so they know what it's ...
MEL VOLLMAN

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.
MEL GIBSON

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it&...
MEL GIBSON

Satellite radio is very hot and is continuing on pace to be one of the fastest-growing products in t...
MEL KARMAZIN

I don't think we're crumbling as a civilization, but this is not our finest hour, and it'...
MEL GIBSON

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to...
MEL BROOKS

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nation's Governors highest p...
MEL CARNAHAN

As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin...
MEL BROOKS

Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, w...
MEL CARNAHAN

But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland ...
MEL TILLIS

I'm not sure I'm going to retire. That's all I can say. But there's another part of that.
MEL STOTTLEMYRE

We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of ...
MEL GIBSON

What I've tried to do . . . is create a whole model that got away from test scores and avoided label...
MEL LEVINE

That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of ...
MEL GIBSON

I think CD is like the glue that keeps it all together. She?s the one that makes sure everybody list...
MEL THOMAS

Sometimes a player of his caliber goes through a long dry spell. He's worked really hard and fought ...
MEL BLASI

The Lone Ranger is going to be one of those iconic characters that never rides off into the sunset. ...
MEL ODOM

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
MEL BROOKS

And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy L...
MEL TILLIS

I think we're experiencing a resurgence of fantasy-type conventions in general because people wa...
MEL ODOM

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Brod...
MEL BROOKS

I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.
MEL MARTINEZ

I don't want to come to Washington to be just another vote. I want to lead on issues that are import...
MEL MARTINEZ

Senator Martinez is not driven by polls; he is driven by the needs of the state of Florida and its 1...
MEL MARTINEZ

And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy.
MEL TILLIS

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect...
MEL BROOKS

I'm pretty fit, naturally. I do moderate exercise, and I try to eat pretty well and I think it h...
MEL GIBSON

I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. I now boastfully say that I have a hi...
MEL GIBSON

I'm just me. I'm just very opinionated. I react to whatever I see. If it's good, it'...
MEL B

Acting feels different. I'm not sure exactly what that is, but it used to mean a lot more. Maybe...
MEL GIBSON

Humor is just another defense against the
universe.
MEL BROOKS

Victims”, by deﬁnition, are those that have just experienced a trauma of some sort. They are goi...
MELISA MEL

I just came out ready to shoot. I just found myself open a lot and I just came in knowing that I nee...
MEL THOMAS

We were on the ice on Tuesday and just had team pictures and a little bit of a chat about what's hap...
MEL VOLLMAN

There is a lack of representation from this side of the Monterey Bay -- Seaside, Marina, Sand City, ...
MEL MASON

We were walking along the Carson River, and I was on the lookout for rocks when I saw it laying ther...
MEL TINKER

I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The ...
MEL GIBSON

Whose God Is It Anyway?
MEL GIBSON

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.
MEL GIBSON

I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough...
MEL GIBSON

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family...
MEL GIBSON

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom.
MEL GIBSON

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKS

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country
MEL BROOKS

Hope for the best, expect the worst./ Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
MEL BROOKS

He who hesitates is poor.
MEL BROOKS

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of ...
MEL TILLIS

And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Spr...
MEL TILLIS

I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.
MEL TILLIS

I remember li'l ol' Hank Jr. - he was just a baby back in them days, you know - but he used ...
MEL TILLIS

Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're ...
MEL GIBSON

In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted aft...
MEL ALLEN

It was Spanish Jewry, not Spanish jewelry, that paid for Columbus' voyage of discovery.
MEL WACKS

On her pages sacred cows become blustering pachyderms.
MEL GUSSOW

I didn't let it interfere with the way I did my job, ... I felt it (wore) a little bit on my thinkin...
MEL STOTTLEMYRE

He wasn't overpowering like he usually is. He wasn't throwing as hard, but he pitched a smart game.
MEL GARDNER

It's great that after 700 years William Wallace has finally had a proper burial. He did so much for ...
MEL GIBSON

You've seen the way the club played at the end of the year. A lot of other clubs with similar proble...
MEL STOTTLEMYRE

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is...
MEL BROOKS

I know the only reason I made it anywhere in hockey was because I was a fighter. I know that was my ...
MEL ANGELSTAD

You can speculate what's going to happen, but upsets happen in sports all the time.
MEL ANGELSTAD

Toughness played a much bigger role on those teams. We had eight legitimate fighters. I helped with ...
MEL ANGELSTAD

I've got nothing to prove anymore. If they want to fight, I'll fight and I'll get it done. I use my ...
MEL ANGELSTAD

The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.
MEL GIBSON

Bring a child and ignore your inhibitions.
MEL GUSSOW

I kept leaning on him and I finally said, 'Mel, this isn't fair.' So I asked him to come on board as...
MEL BROOKS

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of that one [what wome...
MEL GIBSON

That's a huge number. We went through a lot this season. This one, without question, is the sweetest...
MEL STOTTLEMYRE

I guarantee no one expected them to come this far.
MEL THOMAS

to inspire, not offend.
MEL GIBSON

She's a lot like (singer) Anne Murray. She's fabulous.
MEL CLARK

It's set before the Conquest, so there are no European faces, and we are using mostly indigenous peo...
MEL GIBSON

You have been assigned this mountain so that you can show others it can be moved.
MEL ROBBINS

Unless we make sure that everyone is participating in this great economic expansion and until we ens...
MEL MARTINEZ

Idly, Wick wondered if he should feel insulted. Then he decided there really wasn't any room for con...
MEL ODOM

I just spoke to Moose, ... He's been doing his throwing out there, keeping tabs on what's going on. ...
MEL STOTTLEMYRE

The problem is this is so politically incorrect. The public is still dealing with the pre-Roe ethic ...
MEL FEIT

The only thing we don't have a god for is premature ejaculation... but I hear that it's coming quick...
MEL BROOKS

Kids wanted to be Kirby Puckett. Everybody loved the small guy, the bald head, the bulging stomach, ...
MEL ANTONEN

One of the first things I remember was the night he hit that home run in Game 6 of the 1991 World Se...
MEL ANTONEN

Taking her out of her game makes their team struggle a lot more.
MEL THOMAS

They came out and played really hard. They definitely outworked us on the boards.
MEL THOMAS

I think we needed that. We were just playing with them the whole game, we had to break away at some ...
MEL THOMAS

Coach was not happy with us. He told us we just need to flush this (game) down the toilet and forget...
MEL THOMAS

I love it when they can come. They're all Cincinnati fans, so it's pretty interesting.
MEL THOMAS

We just have to play 20 minutes and follow it up with another 20 minutes in the second half.
MEL THOMAS

I think coach always challenges you when you're not doing well and I think she just took the challen...
MEL THOMAS

What really interests me about Keene is how similar it is to Buffalo State.
MEL NETZHAMMER

We just take it personally. This girl is the leading scorer in the country and you don't want her to...
MEL THOMAS

I was going to do the book and the music and the lyrics,
MEL BROOKS

[Brooks, who plays a doctor in the film, feels laughter is indeed the best medicine.] If you don't l...
MEL BROOKS

My favorite expression is: When you go up to the bell, ring it ? or don't go up to the bell.
MEL BROOKS

I think people should buy 20 of them. Buy 20 and save a lot of them for Christmas presents. Who know...
MEL BROOKS

There's no lightning. There's blood, sweat and tears. There's a good idea and there's 18 months of d...
MEL BROOKS

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
MEL BROOKS

I've never been happier than when I was writing the musical score of The Producers. One song after a...
MEL BROOKS

[December features the widely anticipated] All the Kings Men ... The Producers.
MEL BROOKS

On directing movies: anybody can direct. There are only 11 good write
MEL BROOKS

In the movie, I wrote the line 'We might have a position for you.' ... And Tom added, 'We might have...
MEL BROOKS

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
MEL BROOKS

Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, it’s an involuntary explosi...
MEL BROOKS

It's one of those win-win situations. If all the certificates are sold, there's no profit. But it's good for local business. If some are not redeemed, we make some money.

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It's one of those win-win situations. If all the certificates are sold, there's no profit. But it's good for local business. If some are not redeemed, we make some money.

Mel Pearlman

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