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Steven Wright Quotes

My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn't know what I'm talking about. I know if I wasn't her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: December 6, 1955

Topics

Mother Son Time Keep Going Me Know

These kids are looking for direction, for identification. Kids join gangs because they need a father figure or they want to be part of a group.

Father Looking Direction Want Group

I hope to keep writing journalism as long as I write fiction; it's afforded me such amazing adventures and opportunities. It does take a lot of time, so it's hard to do both at once, but I try to do a big journalism piece every couple of years, and I'll hopefully continue with that.

Hope Time Amazing Me Writing Long

I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left to your own resources, spending this inordinate amount of time alone in a balloon of an automobile. I liked that a lot.

John Gregory Dunne

Community Alone Time You Los Angeles

As the U.S. ambassador to Japan, I see this challenge of our younger generations not knowing each other as well as the prior generations.

Challenge Not Knowing Knowing See

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

Success Business Friends Ability

I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.

Fear Death Me Famous Remember Rock

American Pie speaks to the loss that we feel. That's why that song has found the niche that it has.

Song American Feel Loss Pie Why

I like getting older. I always looked younger than I was, and I found that people wouldn't give me the room to speak. The older I get, it's like, 'Oh, I'm still talking, and they're still listening.'

Getting Older People Me Listening

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?

Men Man Me Singing World Real Man

YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although it's harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.

Amazing Musicians Young Now YouTube

I'm not very articulate. The reason I write is because I don't talk.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Talk Write Reason Because Very

But my system for over 30 years has been this: When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30.

You Go Over Years Buy System

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