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I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. ↗

— Saul Bellow

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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely. ↗

— Anne Tyler

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I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day? ↗

— Monica Bellucci

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I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?' ↗

— James Belushi

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But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it. ↗

— Richie Benaud

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I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at. ↗

— Anne Tyler

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How can you think and hit at the same time? ↗

— Yogi Berra

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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony. ↗

— Robert Benchley

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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage. ↗

— Anne Tyler

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Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off. ↗

— Robert Benchley

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