Tony Rock Quotes

I've always been into stand-up, and I always wanted to be a comic because it was like the dream job as a kid, and my brother, being the patriarch, he paved the way.

Tony Rock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 30, 1974

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In TV films, it's nice to get out of town for six weeks or two months, whatever it is, do your thing, and you're out, ready for the next assignment.

Joe Penny

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My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they're my best friends.

Joe Rogan

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If the FBI is now in charge of bad taste, we're all doomed.

Jerry Della Femina

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The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song.

Jerry Harrison

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I have come to this conclusion: if 'sentimentality' is lazy emotion, then the term itself is lazy criticism.

Andrew Sean Greer

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It's near impossible to always be right when you're innovating. It's easy to get emotionally invested in it, but you need to monitor its impact like a hawk and react if you don't like what you see. And if/when you pull it back, you want to do that communication with transparency and humility.

Jeff Jordan

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I love Europe.

Mia Wasikowska

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I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.

Trevor Phillips

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What I'm trying to do is make photographs that are universally understood... that cross cultural lines. I want my photographs to be about the basic emotions and feelings that we all experience.

Mary Ellen Mark

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Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation.

Mary Gauthier

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That's one of those things about being a computer science major: Valentine's Day is just another day.

Jawed Karim

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At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.

Jose Saramago

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