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With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#get #laughs #trying #understanding #you

You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#funny #gotta #just #just be #laugh

You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#broadway #like #make #maybe #money

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron. ↗

— Ted Rall

#first #first step #moron #saying #step

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#bad #either #finished #funny #good

Not to sound egomaniac or anything, but just to get under people's skin like that, and for them to believe in you and believe strongly enough to write... it's flattering and it helps you during the day. ↗

— Glenn Quinn

#believe #day #during #egomaniac #enough

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain. ↗

— Jane Bryant Quinn

#away #between #day #lies #minute

Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass. ↗

— Jane Bryant Quinn

#anyone #bridge #justice #lawyers #operators

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much. ↗

— Quintilian

#expense #laugh #much #propriety #purchased

Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards. ↗

— Jane Bryant Quinn

#big stuff #cards #cash #credit #credit cards