Mike Birbiglia Quotes

I've become good friends with Lena Dunham, and the thing I had in common with Lena when I was 24 is I was as ambitious as she was. What we don't have in common is that I was not as talented. My voice was not as clearly defined.

Mike Birbiglia

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I want my kids to grow up and enjoy their childhood and be carefree. I never really got a chance to be a kid.

Jim Morris

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People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the best art - or falling out of love or being heartbroken - drives all the best books, drives all the best music, and yet we've sort of stopped talking about it.

Joanna Coles

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Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Joan of Arc

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What's funny is that all the artists I've collaborated with, I get this feeling that they want me to win. They're always asking my opinion, always giving me advice.

Stefflon Don

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Grass-roots politics, linking small-dollar fundraising to massive local volunteer organization, showed that it can rival the power of a right-wing machine comprising super PACs backed by entrenched interests and mega-donors.

Jon Ossoff

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The Oscars have always been an arena in which very commercial films are recognised, and I don't mean that in a bitter way; I just didn't ever look in that direction.

Debra Granik

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If there's one thing I could wish for right now, it would be to have one of those horses from the merry-go-round - they were the most exciting thing to go on as a kid.

Deborah Mailman

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That's the greatest thing: an experience you can grow from.

Christina Milian

ExperienceGrowYouGreatestThing

When I was in college and reading music and doing ear training, I was a little more advanced than the other people in my choir classes. So to entertain myself and kind of annoy the friends around me, I would sing just under the pitch or just above the pitch.

Colleen Ballinger

MusicMyselfTrainingPeopleCollege

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Brian Aldiss

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I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

Wyclef Jean

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For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

Thomas Mann

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