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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I don't want to speak negativity into existence.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.
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Great advertising triggers an emotion in you. It has purpose. It touches a nerve, and that provokes a reaction.
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We have great power to affect the attitudes and behavior of the people around us, at work and at home. We have the power to set a tone of honor, to create an energy around ourselves that says, 'I respect myself. I respect you. Let's respect each other.'
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We're never going to please everyone, but all the great Jewish comics have succeeded through irreverence and self deprecation.
