I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.
quote by Adrian Edmondson
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
I want to do everything. I want to do action movies, I want to do comedies, I want to do romantic comedies, I want to do drama. I just think the world that I get to work in is such an amazing place. I hope I get to do it for the rest of my life.
quote by Zachary Levi
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!
Many Are The People
I see a tree.
But knowing what it goes through,
On a daily basis to be a tree...
I can't say I know.
Therefore,
A knowing about it...
I can not prove or show.
I see squirrels, birds, cats and dogs,
On a daily basis...
To be what is perceived are animals.
Are they more or less intelligent than you,
Or me?
I can not claim to know this.
None have I met to chat with personally.
And that applies to people.
Many are the people with different ethnicities.
Many are their languages spoken,
And only fluent am I in one of these.
With a labelling by races and religious philosophies.
But can I claim to know them?
Not really. That would be too presumptuous of me.
But there are those who claim to know,
What is unseen.
They claim to know what others do,
Without having them on the scene.
Walk down any street anywhere and hear folks say,
Something about someone else to belittle and demean.
And not know one thing about them but they do it anyway.
Many are the people who would have others believe,
They know everything about someone else...
Including their history.
And these very same people are the reason why,
There is confusion and chaos in other people's lives...
From an ignorance known that shows.
And that fact should be prioritized as an agenda to realize.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - and on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - and we will neglect it at our peril.
quote by Harry Truman
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
When we talk about something
When we talk about movies
i like comedies, dramas, westerns,
adventures, sci-fi, animations
When we talk about books
i like novels, poetry, short stories,
non-fiction, biographies
When we talk about TV Programs
i like comedies, dramas, cartoons,
game shows, news programs
When w talk aboout music
i like classical, pop, jazz, rock,
country, ballad, r&b, hiphop
When we talk about sports
i like football, baseball, soccer,
golf, hockey, tennis, pingpong
When we talk about poet
i certainly love you,
even if you don't write for me.
poem by Hazel Calumarde
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
quote by Blaise Pascal
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!
The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.
The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.
quote by Emanuel Swedenborg
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.
quote by William Morris Hunt
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Curiosity
For fallacy and fantasy,
for venture and adventures,
for detectives and comedies,
for romance, for music
for vulgarity and tranquility,
for knowledge and truth,
for thinking and reasoning,
for reality and for truth,
I wandered one after the other.
I left them one after the other.
But curiosity for women rules.
As long as it rules I am not dead
25.08.2001, Pakd
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
Comedies are something I'd be very interesting in doing.
quote by David Naughton
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them.
quote by Robin Tunney
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
quote by Kate Hudson
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!
Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
quote by Samuel Goldwyn
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.
quote by Peter Hain
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
quote by Herbert Read
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.
quote by Sheena Easton
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Well, actually, I did start out in comedies. Very, very early.
quote by Ivan Reitman
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.
quote by Friedrich Durrenmatt
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Big studio comedies are such a headache.
quote by Penelope Spheeris
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!