It didnt take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.
In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up a steak and checks the price. Then rolls her eyes, shrugs and tosses it in the cart. That's kind of how I feel. Sure I would have liked things to be different. But, 'roll of eyes' what can you do? 'shrug' I threw the meat in my cart and moved on.
I have often said in answer to inquiries as to how I got away with kidding some of our public men, that it was because I liked all of them personally, and that if there was no malice in your heart there could be none in your "Gags", and I have always said I never met a man I dident like.
You have no idea about presents or what they mean. The last present you gave me was a stick. ” “You wanted a weapon. ” “It was a stick. ” “It had a bow on it. ” “It was a stick. ” “I thought you liked the stick. You laughed.
Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap. . . I wonder if they're clapping because they liked what they saw or because they're happy it's over?
He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile.