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GILDA RADNER, American comedian & actor – Author Quotes<\/div>\n


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\u201cI base most of my fashion taste on what doesn\u2019t itch.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Gilda Radner<\/strong>, American comedian & author<\/p>\n

\u201cRadner\u2019s Ready\u201d (5 December 1977) Feature profile by Cherie Burns, People <\/em>magazine, Vol. 8, No. 23; online via People <\/em>archives, www.people.com<\/p>\n

<\/i>Actors & Actresses<\/a>
\nAmerican<\/a>
\nHumorists & Satirists<\/a>
\nMichigan (birthplace)<\/a>
\nOscar, Emmy, Grammy or Tony Award Winners<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Magazine cover story\/profile]:<\/p>\n

\u201cBourgeois funk is still her thing. After seven sublets in the past two years, she has finally settled into her own $1,100-a-month Greenwich Village duplex. She feels more comfortable, though, shopping in Toronto (\u201cI base most of my fashion taste on what doesn\u2019t itch<\/span>\u201d) but has finally shipped her wardrobe and early American furniture to Manhattan.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cRadner\u2019s Ready\u201d (5 December 1977) People <\/em>magazine archives: http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/archive\/article\/0,,20069694,00.html<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315829087-ce67c619-0fbc5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cI think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Gilda Radner<\/strong>, American comedian & author<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Always Something<\/em> (1989) New York, NY: Avon Books, first Avon edition, July 1990, p. 20It\u2019s Always Something<\/em> (1989) New York, NY: Avon Books, first Avon edition, July 1990, p. 20<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315829475-7c82a017-1e625381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0[Memoir \u2013 recalling when she first adopted her Yorkshire terrier dog, Sparkle.\u00a0 In this passage, Radner is also referring to her husband, the actor Gene Wilder.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cSo Gene and I met Sparkle for the first time together. Then Gene went back to his home in California and I went to my house in Connecticut with Sparkle, where I became one of those people who show you endless pictures of their dog, and all the pictures look alike. I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive<\/span>.\u201d (p. 20)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: It\u2019s Always Something <\/em>(1989|June 1990 Avon Books edition) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-380-71072-2<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cS<\/strong>ome stories don\u2019t have a clear beginning, middle and end. \u2026Life\u2026is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what\u2019s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity, as Joanna said.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Gilda Radner<\/strong>, American comedian & author<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Always Something<\/em> (1989) New York, NY: Avon Books, first Avon edition, July 1990, p. 268<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>[Memoir]:<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to be able to write on the book jacket: \u201cHer triumph over cancer\u201d or \u201cShe wins the cancer war.\u201d I wanted a perfect ending, so I sat down to write the book with the ending in place before there even was <\/em>an ending. Now I\u2019ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don\u2019t rhyme, and some stories don\u2019t have a clear beginning, middle, and end.<\/span> Like my life, this book has ambiguity. Like my life, this book is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what\u2019s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity, as Joanna said.<\/span>\u201d (p. 268)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0It\u2019s Always Something <\/em>(1989|June 1990 Avon Books edition) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-380-71072-2<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cWhile we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die \u2013 whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Gilda Radner<\/strong>, American comedian & author<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Always Something<\/em> (1989) New York, NY: Avon Books, first Avon edition, July 1990, p. 153<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Memoir \u2013 The Wellness Community of Santa Monica is now known as Cancer Support Community] \u201cThe hardest part of committing myself to The Wellness Community and becoming friends with people was learning later that someone who had become close had died. The course of cancer isn\u2019t always what we hope. I was learning that death is part of life. But if I hadn\u2019t gone to The Wellness Community, think of all the love I would have missed. While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die \u2013 whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.<\/span>\u201d (p. 153)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0It\u2019s Always Something <\/em>(1989|June 1990 Avon Books edition) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-380-71072-2<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

Resources<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” el_class=”Wrapper-Author-Resources”]Learn more about Gilda Radner\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>| Here are a few good places to start –<\/p>\n