- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020
One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always had a running commentary in my head that was extremely funny and off-center, but I never said it to anyone.
- East Coast
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or a profession.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
- Expectation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never want me in a position to have to think. That's bad.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of the 19th century.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
That line, about half of somebody's supporters being deplorables, was maybe the worst line I've ever heard in politics. You never - even when you're running against a bunch of racists, you never take off against the voters. It was a politics 101 foible.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020