Dean Wareham Quotes
I have a slightly bourgeois upbringing, I guess. My parents paid for me to go to school, which is nice, but I haven't gotten a dime since then. I have no trust fund. I wish I did.
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.
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I have the most supportive parents and family in the entire world.
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.
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I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.
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I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.
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I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.
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I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
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There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
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I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.
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I wish I could do 50 projects a year.
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My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.
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And I kissed a lot of frogs as well, but no, I kissed a lot of frogs and now I've found my prince.
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When I come out to do my stand-up set, I pretty much get bombarded with lines from movies. You try to play off it a little bit, but that's what people want to see. Some clubs, the drunker the audience gets, the more they heckle.
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I try to keep a pretty one-tracked mind.
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America is a great country. I've been in the south, in the center and in the north. I like it. Americans are very good people. There's just too much air-conditioning.
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My calmness is peace of heart, which reflects in the life I live. This peace of heart is the source that calms the storm.
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I have a slightly bourgeois upbringing, I guess. My parents paid for me to go to school, which is nice, but I haven't gotten a dime since then. I have no trust fund. I wish I did.
