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DANNY SIMON
When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.
DARIUS RUCKER
it couldn't have happened to a nicer person and it's a most fitting award.
ALAN AYCKBOURN
We don't discuss anything anyway. Unless it appears on Patrick's official breakfast-time agenda. And...
ALAN AYCKBOURN
He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.
ALAN AYCKBOURN
You might as well have put her on a stage eating a plate of spaghetti and put a rope round her chair...
ALAN AYCKBOURN
Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
ALAN AYCKBOURN
Alan Bennett is a starmaker; he's the Simon Cowell of the theatre world! He's a beautiful, b...
RUSSELL TOVEY
My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega,...
YANCY BUTLER
Being from the South, there isn't really a lot of great theater. You get musicals and Neil Simon pla...
WES BENTLEY
I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon ...
JON TENNEY
Simon is in his second season with us, helping with the forwards, and Neil has been helping with his...
CHRIS DAVEY
I was raised on songs of poetry like Simon and Garfunkel and Cat Stevens and Neil Young, etc. I love...
JESSICA STEEN
It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?"
"Yes, someone did."
"A Man?"
"...
NEIL GAIMAN
(Judge) Simon Cowell said I was a nice guy with a nice voice, ... But he said I was not an American ...
GEORGE HUFF
Apollo 11 was the movie premiere of moon landings, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Neil was a b...
LILY KOPPEL
I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simo...
JACKI WEAVER
Roschach's Journal: October 12th, 1985

Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tre...
ALAN MOORE
The Odd Couple did very well for us and people really liked it, so we brought back another Neil Simo...
JAMES BREWER
As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.
NEIL GAIMAN
Oh my God, I am such a liar. And I can't even leave it at just one lie, either. Oh, no. I have to pi...
MEG CABOT
Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.
NEIL SIMON
New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
NEIL SIMON
Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sist...
NEIL SIMON
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low t...
NEIL SIMON
When I step out of the role you have written for me you make me feel like a plagiarist. from the pla...
NEIL SIMON
Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.
NEIL SIMON
I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with ...
NEIL SIMON
I felt like writing about a time when I was probably, and I think all of us are, the happiest in our...
NEIL SIMON
Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it i...
NEIL SIMON
I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensiti...
NEIL SIMON
I already knew them,
NEIL SIMON
He wanted to play Oscar too, ... He said he'd give us three months if he could understudy Nathan. So...
NEIL SIMON
Last of the Red Hot Lovers.
NEIL SIMON
I'd tell you, but you've never heard their names, and neither have I,
NEIL SIMON
It was too good a moment to lose in this picture -- and still seems to work so much,
NEIL SIMON
I am most alive and most fulfilled sitting alone in a room, hoping that those words forming on paper...
NEIL SIMON
Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.
NEIL SIMON
Danny made me laugh. ... He made everyone laugh. He was a character (in more ways than one) in at le...
NEIL SIMON
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.
NEIL SIMON
If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.
NEIL SIMON
Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonde...
NEIL SIMON
Yo quito se dablo enchalada porquesa in quinto minuto! But I don't speak spanish.
NEIL SIMON
He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.
NEIL SIMON
45 Seconds From Broadway
NEIL SIMON
Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form o...
NEIL SIMON
People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix yo...
NEIL SIMON
Barefoot in the Park,
NEIL SIMON
Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and w...
NEIL SIMON
Sure it hurts, but if you love someone, you forgive them." Blanche
Somethings you forgive, some...
NEIL SIMON
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.
NEIL SIMON
I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up w...
NEIL SIMON
Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. H...
NEIL SIMON
Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.
NEIL SIMON
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the end...
NEIL SIMON
I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.
ALICE BARRETT
Be a hero, Simon," Simon muttered bitterly, remembering the life Magnus Bane had dangled before him ...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Have you been watching American Idol? They have Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul judgin' the singin. Pau...
CHRIS ROCK
Next time he summons me like a half-asred squirrel demon," I said,"I'll tell him so!
RAINBOW ROWELL
Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan ...
TOM CHAPIN
Simon was Simon. They told me I had a very commercial look.
DEVIN JOHNSON
I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil'...
JACK IRONS
I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?
CARRIE SNODGRESS
The real Simon Pure.
SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE
- La gente debería tenerle miedo a Ursula Monkton - afirmé
- Quizá. Y a qué crees que le ti...
NEIL GAIMAN
He ran until he couldn't breathe, but he never stopped hurting.
NORA SAKAVIC
I have a feeling you're right, Sherwin.'
'Simon. My name is Simon.
CASSANDRA CLARE
How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoust...
BOB MOULD
It was a survival thing: he didn't answer back, didn't say anything about job security for prison gu...
NEIL GAIMAN
Growing up, I listened to a lot of American singer/songwriters, so a lot of Tom Waits, Paul Simon - ...
GEORGE EZRA
Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.
NATASHA LEGGERO
I'm starting Neil Lomax next week.
JOSH MCCOWN
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left. DR. SEUSS
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re...
OSCAR WILDE
Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm th...
MARK TWAIN
When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children ne...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.
GROUCHO MARX
She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand.
STIEG LARSSON
-Who knows about this?
-Just me, the police, the killer, and now you.
STIEG LARSSON
I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said...
STEVE MARTIN
So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.
STEVE MARTIN
...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled ...
STEVE MARTIN
I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you...
STEVE MARTIN
. . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me.
STEVE MARTIN
There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in light...
MARILYN MONROE
Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a...
NORA SAKAVIC
Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.
GERARD WAY
I think Alan Greenspan is wrong,
JAMES HOFFA
Carry on, Simon.
RAINBOW ROWELL
What do we do after? Build a transfer station? Direct haul? And what will the form be? Contract with...
ALAN SIMON
If we fill to capacity we don't have to do a tax or bond to cover the rest.
ALAN SIMON
We're taking in less [household] trash and have more capacity. And capacity equals money.
ALAN SIMON
It's pretty much a lull in the action. We're looking forward to the next few years.
ALAN SIMON
I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name...
CARRIE SNODGRESS
I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.
CASSANDRA CLARE
Do you think…"
He raised his eyebrows. "Do I think what?"
"That Valentine might have dro...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Meliorn looked impassive. "Mundane humans are not permitted in the Court."
"I wish someone had ...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Alan wants to cream me out there.
JIMMY SMITS
I met the oddest little fellow today, Alan of Trebond.
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I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up w...
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Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. H...
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Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.
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Always the journey, never the destination.
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The majority of my work is about preparation.
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I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles intere...
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My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.
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In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered ...
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I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answe...
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I don't believe in miracles.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's fun...
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Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.
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He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have sai...
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Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue t...
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Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.
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I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand.
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I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of read...
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Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chick...
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Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big tro...
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Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with.
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The golden age is before us, not behind us.
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In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our reli...
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Oga. Watu hawaogi ndiyo maana wachafu. Kuoga ni lazima kutumia maji. Ukitaka kuoga neno, tumia maji;...
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My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the ...
PAUL SIMON
Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
PAUL SIMON
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
PAUL SIMON
Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
PAUL SIMON
My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. ...
PAUL SIMON
We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.
PAUL SIMON
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only th...
PAUL SIMON
Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.
PAUL SIMON
I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentime...
PAUL SIMON
Who am I to blow against the wind?
PAUL SIMON
I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm g...
PAUL SIMON
If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, an...
PAUL SIMON
Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.
PAUL SIMON
Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
PAUL SIMON
Listen to the sound of silence.
PAUL SIMON
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the s...
PAUL SIMON
I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It&...
PAUL SIMON
Nike doesn't want to make products for everyone - they want to make products for champions.
SIMON SINEK
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.
SIMON NEWCOMB
A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingl...
SIMON KUZNETS
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
SIMON NEWCOMB
If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.
SIMON COWELL
My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.
SIMON COWELL
When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables...
SIMON COWELL
I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g...
SIMON COWELL
My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.'
SIMON COWELL