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Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

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• I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Real
  • Relationship

• Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Good
  • Water
  • Morning

• All of his saves have come in relief appearances.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Come
  • Relief
  • Appearances

• The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

  

  Irving Penn
  • World
  • May
  • Interesting

• If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Attention
  • King
  • Yourself

• What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Nature
  • Never
  • Eternity

• I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Technology
  • Democracy

• I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • See
  • Plays
  • Musicals

• Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or recognition of family. It was a nasty business. The white South was properly ashamed of it and continually belittled and almost denied it. But it was a stark and bitter fact.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Family
  • Business
  • Bitter

• If I go to Hollywood, I will have to start all over again – which is fine and makes me humble.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Start
  • Humble
  • Hollywood

• If all the world and love were young,And truth in every shepherd's tongue,These pretty pleasures might me moveTo live with thee and be thy Love.But fading flowers in every field,To winter floods their treasures yield;A honey'd tongue, a heart of gall,Is Fancy's spring, but Sorrow's fall.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • World
  • Live
  • Heart

• James Baldwin is probably the biggest influence on me from a literary perspective.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Perspective

• The thing is, I'm a competitor by nature. I like to compete.

  

  Danny Gokey
  • Nature

• It was very punk rock for me to take a stab at working with Justin Bieber. I don't know how people portray that, or 'Climax,' for that matter. But for me, it was the most adventurous thing I could have done at that exact moment.

  

  Ariel Rechtshaid
  • People
  • Done
  • Rock

• Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • Music
  • Experience

• There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Live
  • Real
  • Drama

• I'm very comfortable with an R-rating. I feel like it sounds like what people talk like in real life; I think it's more real to me.

  

  David Dobkin
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Brain

• TV has the unique opportunity to take musicals, live events, so it has that feeling and excitement and spontaneity, but still has a camera between you and what you are watching.

  

  Marc Platt
  • Live
  • Feeling
  • Opportunity

• I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • God
  • Men
  • Beginning

• I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing.

  

  Krista Allen
  • Money
  • Amazing
  • California

• Feudalism, serfdom, slavery — all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kinds of rule, springing out of, and necessary to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is in all cases the same — less government.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Kind
  • Government
  • Progress

• Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

  

  Bill Burr