Jason Gann Quotes
British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.
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I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.
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There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.
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There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
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The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.
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I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.
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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
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You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
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With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.
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I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.
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In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.
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Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
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I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.
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My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My parents were not white trash. My birth mother was white trash.
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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
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I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.
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I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.
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You chose a warrior, remember?” “As you chose an archangel.
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Loneliness is holding the one you love When you know you might never hold him again. Even lost in the darkness My heart will find you The soul die at the hand of the one who carries it. If I could find a place to run away Hidden safely, I would be there today. The darkest daylight finds me.
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British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.