John Mulaney Quotes
The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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I was a theater major at Northwestern University and won a role in a play called 'Mr. Marmalade' after I graduated.
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I have always loved animals and groomed friends' horses as a child. I think I may have even ridden the odd seaside donkey in my early years.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
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Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.
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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
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Beautiful feet are coveted by all women, everywhere of all ages, especially when they want to look their best and show off those strappy heels.
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The more you do stuff, the better you get at dealing with how you still fail at it a lot of the time.
