#to

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#graduate school #harvard #i #legislature #sacramento

In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#ad #anybody #anything #camera #cut

My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#being #childhood #from time to time #i #little

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer. ↗

— Norma Shearer

#anything #doer #get #impossible #inevitable

I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time. ↗

— George Shearing

#assume #better #current #duke #duke ellington

Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that it's much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on. ↗

— George Shearing

#any #bass #come #comes #easier

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto. ↗

— George Shearing

#few #first #i #movement #mozart

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#i do #luck #matter #often #short

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#finish #five #i #out #probably

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#deal #excellent #fiction #go #goes