Michael Stuhlbarg Quotes
I love a sense of humor, I love intelligence, I love specificity, I love surprises. I'm inspired to get out of bed in the morning and fill my day with good things.
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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
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You need to talk about sex with a sense of humor, especially because sex is a sensitive area for a lot of people.
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The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.
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The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.
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Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.
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I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.
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I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
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With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
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I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.
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I tend to like dry humor.
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Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.
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If it gets laughs, it's funny.
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Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
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I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.
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Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
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I love the Spider-Man story. I watched the cartoon on TV when I was a kid, and my brother wore his Spider-Man pyjamas everywhere.
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I found myself thinking about the distance between the 60s and today through certain moments. Like the Henry Flynt interview with Ubuweb founder Kenny Goldsmith, where he talks about how he was scarred by how proud John Cage was to be ignorant of popular music. Goldsmith says, "Nobody thinks twice nowadays about listening to everything!" Something that had seemed so uniquely, radically syncretistic in Flynt's day seems much more commonplace now.
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I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with an explanation for why it's really a Photoshopped picture of Bin Laden asleep. Or his dead cousin Fred. Donald Trump apparently believes that Bin Laden is dead, so that ought to be enough for the Middle East.
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Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.
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Whether I'm at home and researching online or whether I'm in the studio just drawing, I think I'm more interested in practical research - discussing with other people, trying to find the exact formula of putting things on the canvas, what is the consistency of paint that works best.
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I love a sense of humor, I love intelligence, I love specificity, I love surprises. I'm inspired to get out of bed in the morning and fill my day with good things.
