Mike Birbiglia Quotes

I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me from time to time, but I just, I did not know how to respond to that.

Mike Birbiglia

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TimeMeLateKnowSayRespond

The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are.

Joe Henderson

EffortStandYouRunNextSee

If there's anyone who makes you feel badly about yourself or anything that's bringing you down, you don't need it in your life. Negativity begets negativity, but positivity begets positivity.

Stephanie McMahon

LifeYourselfFeelNegativityYou

At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.

Rupert Murdoch

OpportunitySocietyFairTopOpen

I did 'Philadelphia' and 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' at the same time. It's kind of wonderful to do it that way, because you get very hyper-focused.

Mary Steenburgen

TimeEatingYouPhiladelphiaKind

A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it.

Jason Ritter

I AmMeFeelDoingKnowNervous

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

Donna Leon

SchoolTelevisionGraduate School

Hollywood's just not funny.

Chris Rock

FunnyHollywoodJust

What is it like to get in someone's head and hunt them from inside their eyes? That's so freaky to me.

Brian J. Smith

EyesMeSomeoneInsideHeadGet

I honestly don't see how anyone can view the GOP and the Right as anything but evil.

Brett Gelman

EvilViewRightSeeAnythingHow

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.

Sylvester Stallone

FamilyYourselfSurround YourselfYou

My original interest in the Nazi holocaust was personal. Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

Norman Finkelstein

FamilyFatherMotherParentsGhetto

As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular 'hook' upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.

Tim Wise

YouSayReleaseHangSomethingHook

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