Raymond Pettibon Quotes
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.
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A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
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Love is more than one thing.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
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In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
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I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.
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Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.
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When I see a train, I want to take it in my arms.
