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"In those days, there was one secret to making good comedy. If it made the audience laugh, it was a good comedy."
Hal Roach
(01/14/1892
11/02/1992)
US filmmaker
"If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works."
John Dos Passos
(01/14/1896
09/28/1970)
US writer
("U.S.A. trilogy")
"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."
Thomas John Watson, Jr.
(01/14/1914
12/31/1993)
US businessman (IBM president)
"I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants."
Giulio Andreotti
(01/14/1919
05/06/2013)
Italian Prime Minister
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
Andy Rooney
(01/14/1919
11/04/2011)
US TV commentator
"I don't think you'll have to worry that this mental midget, this hillbilly Hitler from Alabama, is anywhere near becoming the nominee of the Democratic Party."
Julian Bond
(01/14/1940
08/15/2015)
US Rep (GA)
, on George Wallace running for president
"You can tell any story in a Western. How can you not be fascinated by them?"
Lawrence Kasdan
(01/14/1949
)
US writer, director
"Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial."
Sydney Biddle Barrows
(01/14/1952
)
US procuress
("Mayflower Madam")
"Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment... but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction."
Steven Soderbergh
(01/14/1963
)
US filmmaker
"I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager."
Emily Watson
(01/14/1967
)
English actor
"I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear."
LL Cool J
(01/14/1968
)
US rapper, actor
"I'd love it if everyone knew one Foo Fighters song."
Dave Grohl
(01/14/1969
)
US musician (Nirvana, Foo Fighters)
"If I was going to be broke I decided I might as well be with actors as anyone else. They were cheerful idiots and seemed to take it better."
Peter Finch
(09/28/1916
01/14/1977)
English actor
"Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing."
Steven Grayhm
(01/14/1981
)
Canadian actor
"Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?"
Ray Kroc
(10/05/1902
01/14/1984)
US restaurant magnate (McDonald's)
"When Mr. Wilbur calls his play 'Halfway to Hell,' he underestimates the distance."
Brooks Atkinson
(11/28/1894
01/14/1984)
US journalist, critic
, review
("Broadway")
"If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commercial insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family."
Donna Reed
(01/27/1921
01/14/1986)
US actor
"There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words.The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense."
Clifford Truesdell
(02/18/1919
01/14/2000)
US scientist
("Essays in the History of Mechanics")
"Nobody ever learns how. The search for human behavior is infinite. You'll never understand it all. I think that's wonderful."
Uta Hagen
(06/12/1919
01/14/2004)
German actor
(same dates as Anthony Eden;
was married to Jose Ferrer)
, on acting
"I always thought that menopause meant a pause between men."
Shelley Winters
(08/18/1920
01/14/2006)
US actor
"I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks."
Alan Rickman
(02/21/1946
01/14/2016)
English actor
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