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If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.
Theodore C. Sorensen
Eyes
Country
Our
Restore
Voices
Self-Deception
Self-Denial
Loosen
Greatness
Gag
Tear
I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
David Mamet
Politics
About
Guy
Writer
Gag
Ask
My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.
Jim Davis
Life
World
Everyone
Laugh
Dream
Write
Makes
Gag
Right before the Bush inauguration, many women were greatly reassured when Laura said of Roe v. Wade on the 'Today' show, 'No, I don't think it should be overturned.' Three days later, her husband reimposed the 'global gag rule' on groups abroad that receive U.S. funding for family planning.
Molly Ivins
Today
Family
Women
Family Planning
Husband
Three
Before
Think
Later
Rule
Laura
Abroad
Days
Global
Said
Wade
Were
Greatly
Roe
Gag
Bush
Inauguration
Should
Planning
Show
Many
Reassured
Groups
Her
Right
Receive
Funding
How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that evokes an emotion in you? That became my motto throughout all my life. Simplicity.
Pierre Coffin
Life
You
Simplicity
My Life
Frame
All My Life
Tell
My Motto
Throughout
Emotion
Became
How
Motto
Gag
Story
I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion.
Walter Becker
Thought
Joke
National
Twitter
Onion
Like
Gag
Really
There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
Adrian Edmondson
Saying
Good
People
Pretending
Childish
Doubting
Rubbish
Beneath
Humour
About
Written
Lot
Effectiveness
Gag
Them
Really
Toilet
When I eat cilantro, it's like someone sprayed perfume down my throat. It closes up my throat, even if there's only a little piece. I like Mexican food, and I'll go out to a Mexican restaurant and tell them, 'Look, I will die if you get cilantro in my food.' Then there's always that one little piece that falls in, and I gag.
Amber Rose
Food
You
Will
Down
Out
Tell
Restaurant
Eat
Someone
Only
Throat
Like
Perfume
Look
Piece
Always
Go
Falls
Mexican
Up
Get
Die
Closes
Gag
Little
Them
Then
Little Piece
Even
To my family and friends, I'm very definitely a clown. But do you know what? Doing a drama would almost seem easy because I wouldn't need to find that gag in a line.
Ashley Jensen
Family
You
Clown
Drama
Definitely
Would
Easy
Find
Seem
Almost
Do You Know
Know
Because
Doing
Line
Friends
Very
Family And Friends
Gag
Need
Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist.
Bill Plympton
Good
Great
Important
Nice
Think
Great Artist
Having
More
Idea
Talented
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
Than
Artist
Being
The Most Important
Gag
Storyteller
Thing
Good Idea
I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.
Carl Barks
Great
Book
Better
Great Deal
Own
Sense
Took
Plot
Tell
Simpler
Had
Part
Make
Because
Deal
Still
Doing
Cover
Were
Covers
Than
Gag
Staging
Story
Little
Incident
Based
Enjoyed
In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, 'Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?'
Charles Hazlewood
You
Slightly
Habit
Calling
Always
Conductor
Discuss
America
Goes
Gag
Bar
Player
I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.
Charlie Sheen
Future
Myself
Past
Live
Some
About
Point
Put
Like
Terms
Talking
Deal
Got
Going
Just
Order
Want
Door
Gag
Used
Slam
Present
I don't like sweet, warm beverages. It makes me gag!
Darci Lynne Farmer
Me
Sweet
Like
Makes
Gag
Warm
A page a day means I need to focus on a gag a day, and that's great for laughs but bad for plot, and I'm primarily a plot guy.
Doug TenNapel
Day
Great
Focus
Plot
Laughs
Bad
Guy
Primarily
Gag
Means
Page
Need
And there is no finer moment, when I sit in a screening, and the parents and the kids are all laughing at the same gag.
Genndy Tartakovsky
Parents
Sit
Kids
Laughing
Finer
Same
Screening
Gag
Moment
There is that stereotype of a nerd with the high pants and pocket protector and that kind of thing. That can sustain comedy for maybe a movie - hence the 'Revenge of the Nerds' franchise - but not for hopefully years on the air. It's a sight gag, not a story.
Johnny Galecki
Revenge
Comedy
Air
Pants
Franchise
Sight
Kind
High
Hopefully
Nerd
Nerds
Pocket
Stereotype
Protector
Years
Maybe
Sustain
Movie
Gag
Story
Hence
Thing
I honestly do feel - and I hope I don't gag anybody if they read this - but I feel like I'm one of the luckiest people in the world.
Jonathan Banks
Hope
People
World
Honestly
Feel
Like
Read
Anybody
Gag
Luckiest
Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.
Michael Caine
You
Business
Waiting
Comedy
Job
Live
Appropriate
Tell
Nerve-Racking
Wings
Writers
Between
Come
Most
Hand
Off
Very
Done
Gag
Much
Show
Show Business
Ever
Oscars
Presenting
Gag me with a spoon!
Moon Unit Zappa
Me
Spoon
Gag
I read every book about Buster Keaton and Chaplin to see how they worked - it's all about dedication, tunnel vision, pursuit of perfection, getting the gag right.
Paul Merton
Book
Vision
Dedication
Every
Chaplin
See
About
Pursuit
Perfection
Read
How
Getting
Gag
Tunnel
Tunnel Vision
Worked
Keaton
Buster
Right
Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?
Rabbit Maranville
Life
Crazy
You
Try
Year
Down
Guess
Kid
Drawing
Laugh
Out
About
More
He
Nobody
Without
Gets
Any
May
Gag
Your
Fun
Serious
Baseball
Last
We used to indulge hopelessly as a family at Christmas. When the children were little, I dressed up as Father Christmas. They knew it was a gag, but they loved it. I remember stealing into their bedrooms at 1 A.M. and filling the stockings up at the end of the bed.
Richard Attenborough
Christmas
Family
Remember
Father
Hopelessly
Dressed
Stealing
Knew
Indulge
Bed
Bedrooms
Were
End
Up
Stockings
Children
Loved
Gag
Little
Used
Filling
If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it.
Sergio Aragones
Time
You
Complicated
Thinking
Spend
Way
Drawing
About
More
Gag
Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.
Sergio Aragones
Character
You
Sometimes
Design
Drawing
Solution
Composition
Equilibrium
Middle
Gag
Which
Placing
Then
Working
Start
'Sex and The City' had very strong gag orders as to what we could say and not say.
Willie Garson
Strong
Sex
Say
Sex And The City
City
Could
Had
Very
Orders
Gag
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