Patton Oswalt Quotes
I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.
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The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.
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I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
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I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music is.
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Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.
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I did this thing for HBO called 'Strip Search' with Sidney Lumet, who was one of the best directors I've ever worked with. We actually had a rehearsal period before we shot, which is unusual.
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It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now to stop this I propose that in the future that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place.
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There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.
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I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.
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I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.
