- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hired a personal trainer to help me lose 25 pounds and get from obese to fat. My next step will be to get from fat to chubby.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Matt Braunger really makes me laugh; I like that guy a lot.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.
- Stupid
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.
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- Nov 07, 2020