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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The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.
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Getting into television was a total fluke.
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There's nobody as lonely as an all-married man.
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It happens to all of us, I concluded that Easter Sunday morning. God simply keeps reaching down into the dirt of humanity and resurrecting us from the graves we dig for ourselves through our violence, our lies, our selfishness, our arrogance, and our addictions. And God keeps loving us back to life over and over.
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When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.
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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.
