Jonathan Winters

Comedian

1925-11-11

Books by Jonathan Winters

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I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.
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I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you. I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated.
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Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
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My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.
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If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
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As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.
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Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In a lifetime, that's kinda wild when you think about it.
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If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
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I couldn't wait for success ... so I went ahead without it.
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