Mike Birbiglia Quotes

Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You put up the streamers, and you hire the DJ, and you get the punch bowl.' Some people are just like, 'This dance sucks.' And you're like, 'No no, this dance is awesome!' You have to be really positive.

Mike Birbiglia

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I think actors tend to be in their element when they are pushed out of their comfort zone.

Matthew Lewis

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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

Anais Nin

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To play 'Tetris' is to knowingly opt in to something that has no end and no way of winning.

Mary Pilon

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Bands on tour are very good cultivators of what's the avant-garde of comedy.

Jonathan Krisel

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It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

Douglas Wilson

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When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there easily - it doesn't take a lot of soul searching - and it's a dark, almost sinister place. Stone Sour is more the way I've always written. It's a different tone.

Corey Taylor

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Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.

Bruno Mars

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The world of entertainment is, like the world of fashion, becoming increasingly populated by those who don't want to do things the same old boring way.

Anna Wintour

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We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion.

William Perry

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As an actor, 'Baahubali' has given me so much that I can't explain in words.

Prabhas

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Compared with the rest of the Royal Family, Charles is a thoroughly Renaissance man, moved by beauty, music, and art in a way that largely passes his parents, his siblings, and his sons by.

Penny Junor

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To somehow shrink so that you might be more comfortable is a foreign language to me. It's a trait that I've never had. And that I hope I never, ever have.

Tituss Burgess

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