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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Our Land is alive, Esperanza...This whole valley breathes and lives...He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating.
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I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.
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As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
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I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally.
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My work on black holes was on the connection between black holes and elementary particles.
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I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.
