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If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

~Jonathan Winters

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Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

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I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.

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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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I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.

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My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

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The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

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I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. You can't blame it on the camera guy... It's you. You're on. You've got to do it, and you either sink or swim with what you've got.

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Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

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I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: November 11th, 1925

Died: April 11th, 2013

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