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" But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality. "
Mel Brooks
Bad Taste
Taste
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" Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance. "
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" Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. "
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" A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan. "
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" I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances. "
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Long
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" I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films. "
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" I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat. "
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Last
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" Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart. "
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Everything
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Around
Life
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