Patton Oswalt Quotes
I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown. I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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I work very hard at my game.
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Women are what completely inspire me, and they have also been my downfall.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
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Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.
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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
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I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.
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I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics.
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The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.
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Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.
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When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.
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You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
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Writing is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer. It always feels good when you finish.
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I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son]... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.
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I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown. I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.
