Gallagher
Gallagher
American comedian who became famous in the 80's for his unique brand of prop comedy. He is best know for smashing watermelons as part of his act.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth24 July 1946
CityFort Bragg, NC
CountryUnited States of America
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When I was at Dartmouth, we recruited nationally. Here, when we recruit, we're home at night.
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We're going to have to see better news and slow steady incremental gains over a prolonged period of time in order to build the market.
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There is a question of steady increases or taking a pause. I think this data supports a pause, but we still have two more employment reports to consider before the December FOMC meeting, so it's not over yet,
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There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen.
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We decided to impose our will tonight. The kids executed our game plan tonight.
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I want to be in the best band in the world again.
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I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.
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There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.
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Regardless of your support, you need to make work.
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I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, it doesn't mean it's settled.
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When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.
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My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world.
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Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.
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I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.