Sam Yagan Quotes
I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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I'm a good driver.
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I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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I never thought I was a very good manager.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
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If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.
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Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!
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Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.
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I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.
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I prefer to work with first-time directors.
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The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.
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I've been using makeup since I was ten years old. I've learned a lot of do's and don'ts over the years. But one would definitely be that you should do your makeup for the occasion.
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I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.
