Dave Attell Quotes
I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing but that task, yet is open at the same time to anything that might happen - that concept can be applied to playing guitar, and it's enormously helpful for improvising.
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Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.
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I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our control.
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I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.
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I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.
