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Michael Ian Black Quotes

I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.

Michael Ian Black

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: August 12, 1971

Topics

Community Jealousy Support Think

I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore.

Culture Think High Low Between

One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it as if it were literal.

Robert J. Sawyer

Science Treat Think Science Fiction

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.

Eyes Time Book Picture I Can Lights

Chairs are like sculpture.

Sculpture Like Chairs

It sounds strange to say, but someone's bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.

Michy Batshuayi

Happiness Luck Someone Bad Sometimes

If you're trying to do something wholly new, it's hard to fully trust it. But if you use forms that have come before, it lends your music weight and authority. It's also a way to acknowledge that it's not just you who's feeling these things. The emotions are coming through you from a whole history.

Music History Trust Trying You New

I get asked enough questions, I try not to ask too many questions.

Questions Enough Try Ask Get Many

I love, in movies, when you feel and you understand the past of the character without it being said or having a flashback or something that explains. I think, in 'Prisoners,' we need to understand that Loki's character's past was not first class. He was not the first in his class.

Denis Villeneuve

Love Character Past Think Feel You

Hell is reimagined by every generation. We have to reinvent the worst so that we can reinvent the best.

Best Generation Hell Worst Reinvent

We need to encourage people to speak up, to speak out, because the more people who participate in our democracy, the more our democracy grows.

Brandon Victor Dixon

People Democracy Speak More Need Up

In India, thousands of people want to be in the movies because Bollywood plays such a huge role in our lives.

People India Want Movies Role Our

Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.

Literature Shirts About Necessarily

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