#y

In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#before #carson #class #few #goal

Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#character #college #dummy #first #happen

A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#could #create #creative #creative person #dancer

I love what I do, I love every minute of it. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #i do #i love #love #minute

All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#on-writing #stories #storytelling #writing #beauty

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#call #colored #every #every time #friends

Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#frequently #know #never #partners #producers

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #myself #nature #never #sort

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#creation #nature #world #beauty

I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives. ↗

— Katherine Dunham

#because #career #certainly #could #feel