Jim Gaffigan Quotes
I initially signed up for Twitter just to do jokes I wasn't going to do in my stand-up routine.
Quotes to Explore
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!
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All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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What is responsible for the phenomenal development of the Internet? Well, it certainly wasn't heavy-handed government regulation.
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I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don't know why I'm not. I just don't have that need. I feel like I'm one of the only people I know who doesn't do it.
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If a girl came up to me and asked me out, that's a little forward. Guys like it when girls play hard to get!
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One of these days when the air clears up And the sun come shining through We'll all be drinking free bubble up And eating some rainbow stew.
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Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.
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I initially signed up for Twitter just to do jokes I wasn't going to do in my stand-up routine.
