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Steven Wright Quotes

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Me Writing Reading Write Head Your

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Time Enjoy You Wasted Wasting

If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious.

Pain Thinking You Serious Always

As far as starting or not starting, that means more to some players than others. And if it means more to someone else, I think you should let them start and just go out there and do your job when it's your turn.

Job Start Think Someone You Go

Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.

More Boston Voyage Well Crew Even

Failure is an extremely personal thing, and so is success. The problem with people is they don't own their failure, and if you don't own your failures, you're never going to own your successes.

Success Failure People Problem You

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

Yourself You Find Situation Possible

I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.

Good Character People Strong Think

I come from a strong matriarchal line. I was raised by Gypsy, her sister, Mary, and my maternal grandmother. The result of not having my father live with us meant that, when it came to understanding the opposite sex, it was like working without a map.

Father Live Sister Strong Result

As an actor, you are always looking for subtext, for layers, for what's going on underneath.

Looking You Actor Always Going

Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

Today Beautiful Hotel Serious Write

At Cornell University, it was well known that after five years on Wall Street, you could expect to be making half a million a year in salary and bonus; after 10 years, you could expect a million or more. I had 60 grand of university debt, and my parents had no retirement. I needed that money.

Money Parents Retirement Year You

People are lying when they say that their record being broken is good for the development of the event. I would like mine to remain as long as possible, please.

Paula Radcliffe

Good Broken People Long Possible

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