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" Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. "

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" Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires. "

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" I started reading when I was about three, a little over three. "

" There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book. "

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" In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War. "

" I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do. "

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