Ben Edlund Quotes
The big challenge for me is that my nature is more towards comedy, so I understand when a comedy thing is working; I know when I'm not bored in a comedy.
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Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.
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I actually love doing comedy!
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know.
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I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
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I'm a student of comedy in general, so I've always loved Billy Crystal. But I'm a different type of showman. I'm a clown and a jester.
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Sunlight is painting.
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I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.
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I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.
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I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
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People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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I like being able to donate my comedy to charity. I'm not a billionaire, and I can't write checks.
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Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.
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I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.
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We knew that by closing the Gulf of Aqaba it might mean war with Israel. If war comes it will be total and the objective will be to destroy Israel.
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The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.
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The big challenge for me is that my nature is more towards comedy, so I understand when a comedy thing is working; I know when I'm not bored in a comedy.
