Bryan Fogel Quotes
We're never going to please everyone, but all the great Jewish comics have succeeded through irreverence and self deprecation.
Quotes to Explore
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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The first bike that I bought was a Triumph 650. I really like the Triumph 650. I mean, of course, I've driven Harleys, and I think in 'Savage Seven' I drove an Indian, but - I really love Triumph.
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I am a very selfish person.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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Women are complicated. We all know that.
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I learn my songs by ear.
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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The English experience has greatly enriched me, and I'd like to carry on as manager.
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I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally half-baked. If all you do is work to fix problems, to alleviate suffering, then by definition you are working to get people to zero, to neutral.
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Fun can happen on the interior. Nobody knows about it, but there are fireworks going on inside your spirit when you hear a great orchestra playing great music.
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Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
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You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.
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We're never going to please everyone, but all the great Jewish comics have succeeded through irreverence and self deprecation.
