Mike Birbiglia Quotes

As artists, we'd all love to not be commercial - to not sell out to the full extent that we are able. But you do what you have to do to pay New York rent and continue to do what you feel strongly about.

Mike Birbiglia

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Just because you did something once doesn't mean anything. You have to be willing in your heart to begin again every day. The minute I'm not willing to do that, I will retire.

Jimmy Iovine

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I like throwing on shorts and a plaid button up with messy hair and last night's eyeliner and sunglasses and wandering the town. And if there's a guy I dig with his arm around me, too, that's pretty nice.

Jessica Parker Kennedy

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Humans are lazy but not stupid.

Jenova Chen

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The deficit - the U.S. knows our deficit is too large. We are committed to bringing it down. We are bringing it down. The deficit came in for fiscal year '05 at considerably below where it was the prior year.

John W. Snow

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The covers of this book are too far apart.

Ambrose Bierce

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I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.

Ron Rash

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I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.

Milla Jovovich

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Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, right? It used to be money and politics and religion. Now, in New York, you should add bike lanes.

Christine Quinn

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Wes Anderson is a perfectionist, so you have to just be ready to try it this way, try it this way, try it that way, and then try it this way. And then, once you think you've got it all and it's done, then you're going to be called back in two or three months so you can try it that way and try it this way. You've got to give him all of it.

Courtney B. Vance

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I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.

Allegra Huston

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The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.

Mark Wahlberg

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I wanna be more of a pop public figure, iconic kinda dude.

Lil Xan

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