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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Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
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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 come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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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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Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
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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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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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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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I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.
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My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.
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No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.
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We're never going to please everyone, but all the great Jewish comics have succeeded through irreverence and self deprecation.
