Anthony Jeselnik Quotes
I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, 'I'll write more than everybody else, and that's how I'll get better.'
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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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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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
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What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
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I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.
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'Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door!Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!' Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'
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I am one of the endangered species: people who still write in meter and rime.
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I loved the man and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.
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The black people I knew came from different places and backgrounds- social, economic, even ethnic- yet the color of our skin was somehow supposed to make us identical in spite of our differences. I didn't buy it. Of course we had all experienced racism in one way or another, but did that mean that we had to think alike?
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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I still have the mentality of a 19-year-old mind.
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Starting in my teens, I was always standing on the corner near our apartment singing harmony with friends. We'd also go to the park and sing under the bridge near the lake for the echo. When it was cold out, we'd stand in the little heated lobby in the project's administration building, where my mom paid the rent each month.
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I went to theater school where there is a lot of holding each other's faces and crying, and a lot of kid gloves.
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When I was 14, my dad came home one day and told us he had cancer. It was looking pretty bad. And I remember him saying how afraid he was that he hadn't gotten to do the things he wanted to do during his life. He had surgery and survived. And he's still alive today, thank God. But it made a big impact on me.
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Unless you're doing Shakespeare or Chekhov... the written word is not sacrosanct.
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I always feel honored to meet people who ever met my mum. It means a lot to me.
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My problems aren't so different from anybody else.
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I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, 'I'll write more than everybody else, and that's how I'll get better.'
