Mike Birbiglia Quotes

It's a difficult line to tread, where sometimes you go to the movies or you watch someone do publicity for movies or TV shows, and they do all the jokes that are good in the promotion of it, and you see the movie, and you're like, 'I kind of get it already. I'm not that psyched about it.'

Mike Birbiglia

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GoodSomeoneYouPromotionSometimes

So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.

Jerry Garcia

PlayWantPrettyWellConvinced

Culture is this thing that exists apart from our real life but is something we all have tacitly agreed to in America. And what film and television do, particularly in this country, is lay out the characters involved in this invisible agreement and dictate who and what can participate.

John Cho

LifeCultureAmericaTelevisionReal

As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don't want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions.

Matthew Pearl

HistoryBelievePressureYouNew

If the only people who can succeed in politics are people who go in at 25, that'd be too bad. That'd be a shame.

Michael Ignatieff

PoliticsPeopleSucceedBadGoOnly

It's sometimes hard to wrap your head around a big story, and for most of us drawing editorial cartoons 9/11/ 01, that was the biggest story of our professional lives.

Steve Breen

StoryDrawingProfessionalSometimes

Thomas, my 15-year-old, is effectively my editor, I've always trusted his voice, more than anybody, on the strip for years. He has one of those ears that's just tuned to the rhythm of humor, so if he says something's not funny, my stomach just hurts because I know he's right, and it's already been drawn.

Stephan Pastis

FunnyHumorVoiceKnowRightRhythm

I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It's absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I'm okay. It's like I'm out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

Steven Wright

FearMyselfMeConflictConquerShy

I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to worry about schedules and that kind of thing.

Toni Collette

FamilyLoveTimeTogetherHolidays

Trouble was almost inevitable. I grew up with so many at-risk kids. Kids had things go wrong.

Tony Rock

WrongInevitableTroubleGoUpKids

There's a conventional wisdom that says that strategic thinking is much more important than relationship building, which doesn't seem to be nearly as highly valued as it should be, based on what some of the leaders that I've spoken with have said to me.

Tom Rath

WisdomRelationshipMeBuildingSaid

I just want people to hear me and my story.

Juicy J

PeopleMeStoryWantJustHear

Being in the Navy, when I came home, it changed your whole life. You're 18, you go away for two and a half years, you come home - boy, you're a different person.

Don Rickles

LifeHomeYouPersonGoNavy

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