Patton Oswalt Quotes
If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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I love to push myself.
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During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
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In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it.
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Google will be obliged either to accept Chinese regulations or exit the world's largest Internet market, with serious consequences for its long-term global ambitions. This is a metaphor for our times: America's most dynamic company cannot take on the Chinese government - even on an issue like free and open information - and win.
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I'm dying to do a tiny indie and play something totally naturalistic without any sort of constraints on me. Something where I can shock everyone.
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As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs.
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If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.
