Bill Burr Quotes

My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to observe it, it's hilarious.

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• Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

  

  Adam McKay
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• But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.

  

  Jack Nance
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• I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous 'I'm wearing a huge hat' kind of way. More a socks with sandals way.

  

  Edie Campbell
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• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
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• I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.

  

  Salma Hayek
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• There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.

  

  Sam Trammell
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• I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

  

  Jackie Chan
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• People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.

  

  Ralph Baer
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• I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• My favorite athlete of all time would have to be Jim Thorpe.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
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• When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
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• When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
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• There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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• Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
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• Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.

  

  Ira Sachs
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• Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.

  

  Kate Thompson
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• A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.

  

  Dan Chaon
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• I definitely don't think of this as a play in any kind of e-commerce space. There was a gap in our ability to get certain types of information.

  

  Salar Kamangar
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• People who hardly ever cook at all, suddenly at the holidays, feel like it's their responsibility to not only cook dinner for large groups of people suddenly, but to serve things that are fussy or fancy or formal. And I don't think that's what anybody really wants, especially if you're not good at it.

  

  Ted Allen
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• The most creative person is not the person who can come up with the best idea; it's the one who can take that group of things on the table and assemble them in the greatest multiple of unique ways.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• I feel like the world is dominated by such a small group of human beings. There are so many different kinds of people that aren't represented, that don't have characters who look like them. And that's one of the reasons why I intend on being a director, because I want to actually tell some of these stories. I also think that we place such intense emphasis on award shows when they're not necessarily the best reflection of how good the work is. We need to realize that art and creation are so much bigger than an award or any measure of accomplishment.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
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• My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to observe it, it's hilarious.

  

  Bill Burr
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