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Dylan Moran Quotes

Irish - Comedian | November 3, 1971 -

I'm delighted to make as many people feel ashamed as possible. There's probably a site like that for everybody. I've heard Newt Gingrich has his own as well.

People Feel Possible Ashamed Own

I'm organised in some ways, but not in others.

Others Some Ways Organised

There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens.

Love Literature You Always Singer

I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape.

Change Doing Landscape You Over How

Do your own thing. Speak in your voice.

Voice Speak Own Your Thing

Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't.

Year Try Out Round Stuff Sensible

If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.

You Stage Everything Remembering

I write all the time, but you just want to be careful what you put out. That's all. You want to have the confidence that you've done what you need to do to it, because otherwise it's an exercise in vanity.

Confidence Time Exercise You Vanity

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.

Work Myself Comedy Admire Over See

A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.

Men People Growing Up Generation Mad

I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for giving me such a stir.

Good Me Giving Always Europe Like

The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.

Failure Good Yourself People Think

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