Category: comedian
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I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In ‘The Colour of Magic’ most of the city is set alight. It’s a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams’s ‘The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.’
Terry Pratchett
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Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.
Terry Pratchett
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When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot’s hands.
George Carlin
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I’ve been known to preach.
Kevin Hart
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Sometimes I wish my first word was ‘quote,’ so that on my death bed, my last words could be ‘end quote.’
Steven Wright
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Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.
Kevin Hart
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If I go to a party, I’m not one to be the funniest person in the room at all.
Carol Burnett
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I’m taking Viagra and drinking prune juice – I don’t know if I’m coming or going.
Rodney Dangerfield
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Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
Carol Burnett
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I just feed off the energy of the audience.
Larry David