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I got brown sandwiches and gr...

I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches. Its either very new cheese or very old meat. - Oscar Madison, from The Odd Couple

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You get attached to the way y...

You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type.

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I don't like losing the words...

I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego . . . I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions.

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Evan Handler's new book is si...

Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.

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I don't use computers... I'm ...

I don't use computers... I'm someone who needs to see the page right away in my hand.

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He's too nervous to kill hims...

He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.

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The first book was my first a...

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.

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A lot of your personality is ...

A lot of your personality is formed before you're 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my childhood. The more mature plays are affected only by my adult experiences.

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Rewriting is when writing rea...

Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball.

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I don't want to restrict the ...

I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.

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People with honorary awards a...

People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?

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It's always painful when you'...

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

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I firmly believe that if you ...

I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

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You must realize that honorary...

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

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Money brings some happiness. B...

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

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Sports is the only entertainme...

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

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Sudden money is going from zer...

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

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Take care of him. And make him...

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

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I understand. You work very ha...

I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.

Neil Simon 58 quotes

A lot of your personality is f...

A lot of your personality is formed before you're 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my childhood. The more mature plays are affected only by my adult experiences.

Neil Simon 58 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....