Jim Dine Quotes
I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.
Quotes to Explore
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.
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My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
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I would do anything and I will continue to do anything I can to stop the train wreck that is Obamacare.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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Men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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It's so funny: at 'SNL,' Bill Hader always kind of treated me like his little sister and would kind of, like, lovingly bully me.
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There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.
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The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.
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I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier.
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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
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Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.
