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 want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.
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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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If the home is good, all will be good.
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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 am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.
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That's kind of the theme of Own the Night. It's about those nights that are so memorable you could live them forever.
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He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inconsistent, and that's something I think makes him a writer above most writers because inconsistency is what we, as people, are full of. We maybe don't see it in ourselves too often, but we are inconsistent.
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I hole up now and then and do nothing for days but read.
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I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.
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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.
