Judd Apatow Quotes
Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
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I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.
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I almost always have a strong passion about the things I do. I wouldn't say aggressive, but I am always trying very hard to make sure that things will succeed.
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I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.
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We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.
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If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.
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Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
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Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.
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I have never thought about creating an image for myself in Bollywood. I am an actor and just want to experiment with roles. I am ready to do all type of roles.
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Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.
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One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. Unless the concept of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it can hardly hope to succeed.
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In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.
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Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
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He stays in the game. He knows the scoreboard, the situation. He knows the game and he's energetic back there. He wants you to succeed, to do well out there.
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A sense of humor is rare. It isn't telling a joke about how there are three ways to get to heaven. It's being in a restaurant and hearing someone say, Everyone's got their tale of woe, and then turning around and saying, Unfortunately, in life, there's more woe than tail.
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I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.
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The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.
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You've got to stay focused without being boring - because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Skinny, but dull.
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Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.
