Maria Bamford Quotes

Over seven thousand US veterans die of suicide every year, which is funny... false laughter... because you'd think they'd die over there, but they come home! Right? I thought that must be funny, because nobody was taking it that seriously.

Maria Bamford

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• What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

  

  Natasha Leggero
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• It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
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• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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• I don't die in anything!

  

  Kat Dennings
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• I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

  

  Barney Frank
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• Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• Home is the nicest word there is.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
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• I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
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• My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

  

  Fran Drescher
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• The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
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• In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
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• Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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  • Laugh

• It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments.

  

  LaToya London
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  • Good
  • Past

• A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

  

  C. S. Forester
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• I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.

  

  T Bone Burnett
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• To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

  

  W. H. Auden
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• We're having such a great time on 'Nashville' that building on the relationship seemed an obvious next step. Lionsgate is the perfect home for the kind of scripted television I want to produce and direct.

  

  R. J. Cutler
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  • Home

• I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to growing up was John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. It's music that feels like home to me.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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  • Home

• I am using the word image in a wide meaning, which does not restrict it to the mind's eye as a visual organ. An image in my usage is what Charles Pierce called a sign...

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind

• When it comes to the business side of it, as much as you might hate it, the reality is that you give the record company a sort of ownership of your songs, so you've got to make sure you're getting everything you can out of it now, because if you're not, then who is?

  

  Paolo Nutini
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  • Hate

• Over seven thousand US veterans die of suicide every year, which is funny... false laughter... because you'd think they'd die over there, but they come home! Right? I thought that must be funny, because nobody was taking it that seriously.

  

  Maria Bamford
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