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		There are some people who were born with good timing, and I think my comic timing is pretty solid.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		Life is about timing.
	
	  Carl Lewis Carl Lewis
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		Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.
	
	  Kat Dennings Kat Dennings
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		I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
	
	  Candice Patton Candice Patton
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		I never read comic books as a kid.
	
	  Al Jourgensen
			
			
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		People have a comic bent or an angularity to their thinking, and those are the people who make jokes. And it's usually people who were in an environment, when they were young, where jokes were at a premium, or at least considered important to a life. My parents always listened to the comedy radio shows, we went to the comedy movies, and my parents appreciated comedy. So kids listen and follow what their parents like.
	
	  Carl Reiner Carl Reiner
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		[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.
	
	  Flannery O'Connor Flannery O'Connor
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		There are a lot of comic strips in Brazilian newspapers that have been around for 30, almost 40 years. They are very famous in Brazil.
	
	  Gabriel Ba Gabriel Ba
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		I just didn’t want to be pigeonholed as an 'ethnic comic' or an 'Asian comic.' I just wanted to be on the same playing field as everyone else.
	
	  Aziz Ansari Aziz Ansari
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		One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?
	
	  Tony Kushner Tony Kushner
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		If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist.
	
	  Drew Carey Drew Carey
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		There is no need for the Russian state to hold such large stakes and we do intend to put our plans into practice. It is not about whether we want it or not, it is about this being practical or not and the best timing. In general, it is practical from at least one point of view - from the point of view of structural changes in the economy.
	
	  Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin
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		If you'd rather go to the football game than read a comic, that's fine. I'd rather do both.
	
	  S. Robson Walton S. Robson Walton
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		Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.
	
	  Ali Shaheed Muhammad
			
			
				A Tribe Called Quest Ali Shaheed Muhammad
			
			
				A Tribe Called Quest
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		Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing.
	
	  Winston Marshall
			
			
				Mumford & Sons Winston Marshall
			
			
				Mumford & Sons
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		I was a little worried that the familiarity would be a little weird, but I think for me everything is musical in my life. For me, timing is a rhythm.
	
	  Sandra Bullock Sandra Bullock
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		If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.
	
	  Sarah Silverman Sarah Silverman
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		I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and that's the nature of comic book storytelling - always has been.
	
	  Scott Derrickson Scott Derrickson
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		If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.
	
	  Scott McCloud Scott McCloud