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I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears. ↗

— Martin Short

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All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done. ↗

— Martin Short

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I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations. ↗

— Martin Short

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I have a kind of objective luxury about my career. ↗

— Martin Short

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I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace. ↗

— Martin Short

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I've never done an improvised movie as a fictitious character. I think that's the challenge. ↗

— Martin Short

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My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. ↗

— Martin Short

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Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people. ↗

— Nigel Short

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A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time. ↗

— Frank Shorter

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For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point. ↗

— Frank Shorter

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