Cass McCombs Quotes
You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.
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Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.
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We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
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I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise.
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I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.
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Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
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Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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I'm not original, but I strive toward it as much as possible. I tried really hard on Weekend Update to do something that I considered original, which was, I tried to cut all cleverness out of the joke.
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I have no idea why Mark would have done that. I was as shocked as anybody in the stadium. How do you explain that? I don't know. That goes back to Pop Warner football. Mark should have made a better decision. I'm not going to sit here and go any further in front of the whole media, but it's as bad a play as there is.
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The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.
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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
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You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.
