Patton Oswalt Quotes
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.
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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
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Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.
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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
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I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.
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My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.
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People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
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I think, for an actor, the whole world is a place of work because if you focus on characters and on stories, they are everywhere, so yeah, I feel very privileged to have had this great opportunities in the international cinema and especially in the American cinema.
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We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.
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I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.
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When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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Be, as you have been, my happiness;Let me sleep beside you, each night, like a spoon.
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Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.
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This person has done at least two (2) things that would be classified as 'unforgivable.'
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I was trying not to mention backtracking. Which, of course, means that yours is 'righter' than mine, in a theoretical sense.
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I've struggled with depression in my life and sort of the way that the depression itself becomes an addiction.
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Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.
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I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.
