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When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#clubs #college #comedy #enough #entertainer

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#always #book #director #flattering #happens

I've just got to let my teammates know in practice, without even telling them, that I don't think I'm ahead of anybody. ↗

— Kevin Durant

#anybody #even #got #i #just

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh. ↗

— Emile Durkheim

#among #classes #comfort #great #harsh

He was beautiful in a way that hurt me, but it was the sweetest pain I ever knew, better even than the scars I took on my naming day. ↗

— Ann Aguirre

#fade #outpost #beauty

In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he's in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he's swinging through the city. ↗

— John Dykstra

#deny #end #first #girl #had

Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image. ↗

— John Dykstra

#changing #color #contrast #converting #digital

I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#actually #call #create #experiences #i

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me. ↗

— Dick Ebersol

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And the separatist terrorist organization, PKK, had easy access to Turkey to, inside Turkey. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#easy #easy access #had #inside #organization