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Carl Reiner Quotes - Page 2

I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great language - I'm very ordinary.

I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great language - I'm very ordinary.

Carl Reiner
People, Ordinary, Different
"Carl Reiner on writing a children's book, tweeting, and joking around with Mel Brooks". Interview with Katherine Brodsky, tv.avclub.com. June 23, 2015.

If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

Carl Reiner
Games, Names, Laughing

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"

Carl Reiner
Book, Writing, Doe
Source: www.avclub.com

My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

Carl Reiner
Father, Work Ethic, House
Source: www.avclub.com

You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.

Carl Reiner
Writing, People, Mets
"Carl Reiner on writing a children's book, tweeting, and joking around with Mel Brooks". Interview with Katherine Brodsky, tv.avclub.com. June 23, 2015.

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