Tom Green (Michael Thomas Green) Quotes
I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
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Women's inclusion in the economy is one of the most important issues in Israel.
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.
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There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.
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I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.
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California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.
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I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.
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We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.
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The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters.
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I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.
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Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.
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Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.
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Listening in response to criticism mandates a shift in our internal psyche that marks perhaps the most important single evolutionary shift humans can make.
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It must not be supposed that the subjective elements are any less 'real' than the objective elements; they are only less important... because they do not point to anything beyond ourselves...
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The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
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[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.
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I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it.
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Don't wait for success, but for the respect and interest of those who read you. At the start it could be a classmate, someone who shares your interests. Before sending off the manuscript for a novel to a publishing house, it would be a good idea to try writing short stories, and publishing them in a local magazine.
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The Iraqi military are able to deploy these weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so.
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I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.
