Patton Oswalt Quotes
I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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The devil made me do it.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life and habitats in the sea. He was a legendary mariner, diver, oceanographer, and conservationist. The world is a better place because of him.
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My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.
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I don't feel like I need to tell any lies. You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct. You just say what you have to say, and if they don't like it, it's OK.
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I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.
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Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.
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I don't want to get into extended conversations with people on MySpace, because there are friends I have extended conversations with every day.
