Mike Birbiglia Quotes

Everything about starting out in comedy is pride-swallowing, from handing out fliers to bombing in front of audiences.

Mike Birbiglia

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ComedyStartingEverythingOutFront

The fact of the matter is that when there are feelings involved and you like someone, it doesn't matter if you're an actor, a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a receptionist - you can't really help it when you have feelings for someone.

Jessica Szohr

TeacherDoctorLawyerSomeoneHelp

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

Andrei Platonov

HomeFutureCountryClassWorking

Nobody's impressed back home. All my friends were going, 'Oh right, so you're doing a play up in Leeds? Another depressing one is it? Do you mind if we don't bother coming?' I love that.

Maxine Peake

LoveHomeMindFriendsDoingYou

Tablets are more intuitive than a PC or laptop. They also have more real estate than a smartphone.

Aneel Bhusri

Real EstateMoreRealEstateLaptop

Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

Miranda Hart

MottoYouthYouThingsGetFine

Writing tips are like mini skirts. Sometimes they fit perfectly, sometimes they make you cry, and sometimes you can reuse the material and sew yourself a pillow or something.

Chelsea Cain

YourselfWritingYouSometimesCry

Whenever television cameras are interviewing people in their homes, I tend to look over their shoulders and have a good snoop at their living rooms. I am always astonished at how clean they all look, with nothing out of place or unnecessary or dropped down any old how.

Craig Brown

GoodI AmPeopleLookDownLiving

It is no doubt technically possible to study metabolism and respiration of fishes during swimming at a constant rate, and of certain insects and birds during flight, and to obtain information similar to that obtained on man during work on a bicycle ergometer or a treadmill.

August Krogh

WorkManBirdsSwimmingBicycle

There was one point where my mother was dying of lung cancer, and a journalist dressed up as a nurse and got in the house to get a picture of her, dying of lung cancer and stuff like that, and then you realise the fame's not all it's cracked up to be.

Pete Burns

MotherPictureYouHouseDressedUp

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

Tiger Woods

GoodStoryFactsWayGetGood Story

You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing; otherwise, why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it.

Marjane Satrapi

BestThinkYouArtistCreateWhy

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

Mos Def

LoveLanguageLovedAlwaysRhyming

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