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My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#coach #cooper #drama #gary #gary cooper

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#doubt #get #older #out #running

I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#also #audiences #back #become #circuit

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#certainty #developed #direction #each #ease

I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#criticism #enormous #film #film criticism #find

I've always said that with kids' TV that people get stuck in it from drama school but that's not fair because I know myself that when you go in creatively, kids are so much more open to ideas. You're so much freer to mess about and try things. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#always #because #creatively #drama #drama school

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#free #insane #laugh #learning #lies

My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#ended #first #five #francisco #holiday

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#africa #because #books #central #comic

I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing. ↗

— Patricia Velasquez

#boyfriend #brother #brothers #could #happy