Phoebe Robinson Quotes
At its best, alt comedy can be challenging, surprising, and innovative. And at its worst, alt comics think that being awkward.com/FAQS is a substitution for punchlines.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.
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The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire.
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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.
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Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.
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I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.
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If one has been blessed or have been fortunate enough to have got much more than normal wealth, it is but natural that one expects a certain fiduciary responsibility in terms of how that wealth is applied, used and leveraged for purposes of society.
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I'm very optimistic. I'm happy-go-lucky, I guess. I try to be.
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I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time.
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Please, please, please - I would love to do some comedy. Once you have a reputation for one thing - in my case, crying and dying - you are typecast.
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Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.
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At its best, alt comedy can be challenging, surprising, and innovative. And at its worst, alt comics think that being awkward.com/FAQS is a substitution for punchlines.
