A.T. Baron Quotes
Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work.
Lily Tomlin...I used to watch reruns of Laugh-In and she was always my favorite part. She's this very unique talent and the way she does things has been a very big influence on me.
I'm working with a lot of legends who are brilliant who are people I've looked up to from a very young age.
First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He hates when I bring that up.
I'll get laughs in the places I don't want them and that makes me realize the direction I want to go in. I don't mean to get too deep into comedy here.
Sometimes you're not getting the laughs you want or at the place you want but that doesn't mean it's not funny. It means you haven't explored it enough.
The audience is not your boss. They are your collaborators and when you collaborate with someone you don't have to listen to everything they think or say.
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
Perjury is often bold and open. It is truth that is shamefaced - as, indeed, in many cases is no more than decent.
The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.
Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided.
The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral.
We have a dire need to get onto the page as a sustainable country
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.
In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.
There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.
Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.
Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.
The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.
In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.
The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself.
The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.
Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.
Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.
In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.
The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.
The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.
Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.
As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.
A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.
There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.
We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.
There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.
O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.
Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.
Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.
There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.
It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.
