Michael Ian Black Quotes
I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.
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You cannot get involved in debate on 'MOTD'. You can do it on Sky because they've got hours and hours. We've got a couple of minutes. It's a very disciplined show. Our primary purpose is to show the action, and the analysis is very secondary. We have lots of people who would prefer no analysis. We have lots of people who would prefer more analysis.
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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Not a 'Mad Men' guy. Never got into it. I'm kind of a contrarian that way. If something gets too popular too fast before I can get on it, I just get really annoyed. Everybody tells me I'm an idiot; it's supposed to be amazing. I saw some of the second season; I loved it, but I was just detached. I didn't get into it.
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.
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I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.
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Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.
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The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.
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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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You go through stuff, and you keep going.
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As an artist, you have to work hard for things that you can't really hold in your hand. I work not for money but for my career, to expand myself as an artist. Every video I make, it's not making me any money; it's just because I want to expand.
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The guitar chose me.
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For all the spectacle of CGI, there's something alien and unreal about that domain, like a videogame.
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I rarely do masks because, if I have any extra time, I'd rather spend it with my friends than on myself.
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I was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, about 20 miles from Kalamazoo. I lived around there for about seven years. That community is one that I really care about.
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I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.
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I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.
