Eugene Mirman Quotes
Oh, Hello. I'm Eugene Mirman, and I'm here to introduce my special. It's called An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory.
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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The script is always the main preparation for me. Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it, but if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
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PATRON, n. One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.
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Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
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Banks can send big corporate payments through existing channels or send a small payment through Ripple. They don't have to rip out existing infrastructure; they can use Ripple to make the transactions more profitable or more efficient.
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One time I tried to use the bathroom in the dark, and I missed the toilet, and I fell on the floor.
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For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.
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I've got a great team around me with my family, manager and label, and we've all worked hard together to make things happen.
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Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation.
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Automate your savings so that you have money taken directly from each paycheck and deposited into a 401(k) or other workplace retirement account. If that's not an option, automatically have money transferred out of checking into savings each time you get paid.
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If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
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Why didn't we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically?
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When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of this is true, how much invented.
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If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.
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An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.
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You make a decision whether you just work on the script and believe in every moment and pick out every moment, or if you sit down and memorize lines. Once you really dig into a script, learning lines becomes almost second nature.
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Oh, Hello. I'm Eugene Mirman, and I'm here to introduce my special. It's called An Evening of Comedy in a Fake Underground Laboratory.
