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Woody Allen Quotes - Page 26

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Those who can't do, teach!

Those who can't do, teach!

Teach

Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (2000). “Annie Hall: scénario bilingue”

90% of success in life is showing up

Showing Up, Life Is, Success In Life

I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people and religious aspirations and mortality, existential themes that will be relevant a thousand years from now. When many of the things that are successful and trendy today will have been long relegated to musty-looking antiques, his stuff will still be great.

Religious, Communication, Successful

Manute Bol is so skinny they save money on road trips. They just fax him from city to city.

Funny, Nba, Cities

"No longer standing tall / Former Warrior center Manute Bol reduced to living in poverty" by Declan Walsh, www.sfgate.com. June 26, 2001.

Real software engineers don't debug programs, they verify correctness. This process doesn't necessarily involve execution of anything on a computer, except perhaps a Correctness Verification Aid package. Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

Sex, Real, Love Is

I have a great admiration for English actors and actresses and have used them at every opportunity over the years, but now I won't have to import them to New York.

New York, Opportunity, Years

"Titanic star to play in Woody Allen's first British movie" by Kirsty Scott, www.theguardian.com. June18, 2004.

It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom

Writing, Actors, Idiom

It figures you've got to hate yourself if you've got any integrity at all.

Hate, Integrity, Figures

"Woody Allen: His Films and Career". Book by Douglas Brode, 1985.

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

Music, Years, Play

As an artist, you are always striving toward an ultimate achievement but never seem to reach it. You shoot a film, and the result could have always been better. You try again, and fail once more. In some ways I find it enjoyable. You never lose sight of your goal. I don’t do my job to make money or to break box office records, I simply try things out. What would happen if I were to achieve perfection at some point? What would I do then?

Jobs, Artist, Sight

Is there a separation between body and mind, and if so which is it better to have?

Mind, Body, Separation

I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

Dying, Immortality, Achieve

The best an idea gets is when its in your head.

Ideas

Raised by two mothers...wow, most of us barely survive one

Mother, Two, Wow

Life is for the living.

Life Is

The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.

Depressing, Afterlife, May

Without Feathers "The Early Essays" (1975)

Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you.

Life Is Short, Life Is

We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices.

Philosophical, Choices, Our Choices

[...] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.

Meaningful, Artist, Glasses

I would never wanna belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member.

Annie Hall, Clubs, Members

Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (2000). “Annie Hall: scénario bilingue”

We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.

Mouths, Over It, Laughed

"Modern In A Post-Modern World". www.themillions.com. November 7, 2007.

I'm not saying I didn't enjoy myself, but I didn't.

Enjoy

"The Curse of the Jade Scorpion", 2001.

Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo.

Brother, Zoos, Honor

Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Safety, Risk, Playing It Safe

Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.

Hero, Obsessed, Predicaments

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