Oh, the humor! It's hysterical. And it's smart and goofy at the same time, kind of like a Neil Simon play or a Mel Brooks movie. I read it over and over again, and it changed me in the way of storytelling, seeing things differently.
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At one point, I thought that maybe humor was the best way to deal with it. I figured maybe I should get 12 old Jewish comedians, you know, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, to sit around a table and have them riff off 'The Protocols.
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Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need to replenish themselves with oxygen. So you laugh, you breathe, the blood runs, and everything is circulating. If you dont laugh, youll die.
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I've never been happier than when I was writing the musical score of The Producers. One song after another tumbled out of my head in what was the most soul-satisfying experience of my career. And in my less than humble opinion, I must say that it turned out to be surprisingly good.
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I wouldn't have done this show without Nathan Lane, because he's God's gift to Broadway, ... And Matthew's a surprising find -- I didn't know he could sing and dance.
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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit
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As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
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That's it baby, when you got it, flaunt it.
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Presidents don't do it to their wives. They do it to their country.
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Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall down an open manhole cover and die.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
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Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
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