Patton Oswalt Quotes
There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone.Patton Oswalt
Quotes to Explore
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
Walter Isaacson -
If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.
Laura Robson -
Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
Hamdi Ulukaya -
Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
Garth Stein -
I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
Ted Allen -
I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
Odette Annable
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The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.
Walter Cronkite -
AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
Larry Kramer -
For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
Orlando Bloom -
I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won't lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age.
Ted Naifeh -
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Barbara De Angelis -
Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, but it's true.
Karen Finerman
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I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.
Larenz Tate -
I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.
Taylor Swift -
Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.
Gabby Douglas -
My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
Van Morrison -
When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!
Wendy Kopp -
I loved but once, yet twice I lose my love!
Edmond Rostand
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Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals.
Antoine Lavoisier -
What strange circumstances, or what odd combination of many circumstances, must occur, I wondered, to make it possible for a man to step from one world to another.
Clifford D. Simak -
One thing the blues ain't, is funny.
Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield -
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.
Morgan Freeman -
There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone.
Patton Oswalt