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“How many people have never raised their hand before?”

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This book offers an intimate look into the life of a comedian, detailing his experiences, challenges, and triumphs in the world of comedy. more

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Steve Martin

Steve Martin is a renowned American comedian, screenwriter, director, and musician, born on August 14, 1945. He has achieved great success in film, television, and theater, known for his unique sense of humor and acting skills. more

“Talking of the local Sheriff, Jake Valentine, tall and skinny and his wife Myra, "She was a short woman, maybe five feet tall in her socks, the top of her head not quite reaching Jake's chest. What she lacked in height she made up for in girth. Jeffrey guessed she was at least a hundred pounds overweight. Standing side by side, the Valentines looked like the living embodiment of the number ten.”

Made Sides Numbers Talking Five Wife Feet Ten Hundred Standing Locals Height Reaching Pounds Tall Chests Valentine Skinny Sock Embodiment Overweight Jake Sheriffs Girth

Author:Karin Slaughter

“Sign by elevator put up by computer geeks in office building: REMEMBER: FIRST YOU PILAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE SUSPENDED FROM THE RAIDING TEAM. In Mr Perfect”

Firsts Remember Perfect Team Building Office Computer Geek Elevators Suspended Office Buildings Raiding Mr Perfect

Author:Linda Howard

“A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand.”

Trying Mind Wells Long Thousand Six Seven Ran Counting

Book:To Die For: A Novel

Source: To Die For: A Novel

“Sometimes I wish we could rub out all of our mistakes and start fresh, from the beginning,' I said. 'And sometimes I think there isn't anything to us but our mistakes.”

Thinking Said Sometimes Wish Mistake

Book:The Paris Wife: A Novel

Source: The Paris Wife: A Novel

“...To be honest, I'd be the last person who should be doling out gardeinng advice. I don't have the patience for growing things. Yes, I realize there's nothing quite as satisfying as eating food that you've pulled up from the ground and that's why, at the height of the planting season, I bury cans of tomato soup in my backyard and dig them up in late spring.”

Should Persons Lasts Realizing Growing Advice Honest Late Eating Spring Seasons Being Honest Height Satisfying Soup Backyards Tomatoes Eating Food Growing Things Late Spring

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swallows would be here for another month or so before they left for the south before they returned again next summer.”

Done Would Be Next Left Four Tree Months Summer Green South Clouds Sunday Autumn September

Author:Ali Smith

“Tonight I can smell the season the way it's usually only possible to at the very first moments of its return, before you're used to it, when you've forgotten its smell, then there it is back in the air and the flow of things shifting and resettling again.”

Way Firsts I Can Moments Used Air Return Flow Seasons Forgotten Smell Tonight Scent Shifting

Author:Ali Smith

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