Louis C. K. Quotes
Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.
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I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.
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Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.
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Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.
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I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.
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The landscape is television has changed so much, because there are so many outlets, that the odds of getting a zeitgeisty hit - you know how 'American Idol' seems to appeal to every human being on the planet? Doing that in comedy nowadays is very, very hard.
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Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.
