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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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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When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.
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I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.
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It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.
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Any good thing that happens to someone you love can only be good for you too.
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I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone. There's an amazing interaction with the audience that happens because they are very much another scene partner.
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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.
