Sloane Crosley Quotes

I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.

Sloane Crosley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 3, 1978

Topics

FunnyHumorCultureYourselfEffort

I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.'

Jim Kolbe

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I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

Jessica Hagedorn

MusicNew YorkCityNewAirportUp

My parents have been married multiple times each, so the idea of being committed to somebody was scary.

Jenny Mollen

ParentsScaryBeingBeenCommitted

I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.

Andrew Eldritch

MusicFriendsHearRecordHouses

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

TruthLieTruth IsMoreNever

It doesn't matter how pretty you look it's how many runs you get.

Steve Waugh

YouLookMatterPrettyGetHow

When I first started acting, somebody once said to me that anything that is a problem that prevents you from getting a job will eventually be a strength. It works both ways. The odder you are, the harder it is to get work, but once you sort of establish it, you have no competition.

Tom Noonan

WorkStrengthJobCompetitionMe

Hillary Clinton cannot run away from her own record of incompetence or from the Obama record of abject betrayal.

Tom Tancredo

BetrayalRunIncompetenceOwnHer

I've always listened to music while I write, but none of my work has been so directly impacted by a song as my new novel, 'So Cold the River,' for which the brilliant strings piece 'Short Trip Home,' composed by Edgar Meyer and featuring the incredible Joshua Bell on violin, inspired much of the story.

Michael Koryta

WorkHomeMusicRiverSongCold

I talked my parents into sending me to Roedean at 16. I had this idea that if I could get into Cambridge, then I could join Footlights. My problem was that I went to a comprehensive in Brighton. I thought I'd have to start from a good school, and the best I could think of was Roedean.

Lucy Griffiths

GoodBestSchoolParentsMeStart

Relationships are everything; a lot of people say it's who you know and who knows you. I believe it's all about who is willing to step up and say they know you. Who's willing to put their name on the line for you.

Diamond Dallas Page

StepPeopleBelieveNameYouKnow

I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.

Athol Fugard

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