Michael Spiller Quotes

For me, I believe comedy's about taking risks, taking chances, working in a safe environment where you're comfortable making a fool of yourself. It's so critical, especially in comedy, to just have all those right pieces in place.

Michael Spiller

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FoolYourselfRisksMeBelieveYou

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.

Joe Pantoliano

LovePeopleAboutSubjectivity

Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

Ann Oakley

GoodMotherChildrenDedicationTidy

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

Jean de La Fontaine

HungryStomachCannotHear

I am keenly aware that in writing about my mother, I am writing about my aunts' sister, and that in writing about my grandmother, I'm writing about their mother. I know that my honesty about how my view of these people has changed over the years may be painful.

Tracy K. Smith

MotherHonestyI AmPeopleSister

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has.

Tom Wolfe

PeopleWorldYouInformationKnow

I can't travel without Sudoku.

Robert Ballard

TravelWithout

A lady emailed me that her child had been diagnosed with autism and that hearing my material on the subject had helped her. To me, it just means that I'm making the right decision in talking about this.

Ron Funches

DecisionChildMeTalkingLadyHer

Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'

Rollo May

IdentityPersonalWho Am IQuestion

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

Mathew Baynton

FamilySchoolLaughMoreKidAlways

My parents didn't know anything about collegiate scholarships, so they had accepted the national team training stipend, the monthly stipend that I received after making the national team, so I was ineligible for NCAA eligibility anyway.

Dominique Moceanu

TrainingParentsTeamKnowAnything

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

Chris Crutcher

WordsI AmWayAnythingHonestThem

I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.

Bonnie Raitt

MusicThinkUpBeenLikeQuite

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