“An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.”
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I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.
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If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
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I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
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