Alexander Polinsky Quotes
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
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I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
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I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It's kind of nice to mix it up.
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It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.
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When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.
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It's bizarre to be given an award for being empathetic and kind, which is what we all should be.
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I laugh, and it was amazing! I swear I could see my laughter floating around me like puffy things you blow off a dandelion, only instead of being white it was birthday-cake-frosting-blue. wow! Who knew hitting my head and passing out would be so much fun? I wonder if this was what it was like to be high.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of... that gives you a certain power over it.
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The Cold War has ended. It's very simple. We are no longer living in a bipolar world. The chances that we will go to war with Russia are pretty much ended. Mutually Assured Destruction was a doctrine that worked very well for decades as a deterrent, but the world has fundamentally changed.
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Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
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Laughter is contagious, and so are you! Stay safe, stay kind!
