Michael Showalter Quotes

You really have no idea whether or not what you're writing is funny. In stand-up and sketch comedy, you know right away and you can make your changes accordingly.

Michael Showalter

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FunnyWritingComedyYouKnowRight

Everybody told me that Taiwan is a very polite society and that people don't like gossip and scandals here. But they just pretend they don't like it. We have, by far, the biggest newspaper in Taiwan. They just buy it to read it at home.

Jimmy Lai

HomePeopleMeSocietyGossipBuy

I think great writers should write great shows, and I have trouble with, like, what you are in life shouldn't automatically make you what you do in your art. It doesn't necessarily translate.

Jenji Kohan

LifeGreatArtThinkYouTrouble

Even bros have depth, complexity, and emotion.

Max Joseph

EmotionDepthComplexityEvenBros

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Jeanette Winterson

LifeWorkTogetherPeopleLookCozy

After the maxi yuan depreciation of 1994 and until 2005, exchange-rate fixity was the order of the day, with little movement in the CNY/USD rate.

Steve Hanke

DayMovementLittleOrderUntil

Rejection and I are old friends.

Michaela Watkins

Old FriendsFriendsRejectionOld

I've got five years of experience as a national security staffer in the U.S. Congress.

Jon Ossoff

ExperienceSecurityCongressYears

I'm agoraphobic. I can't deal with crowds.

Douglas Coupland

DealCrowds

That's the trouble with the women's game. Those women think they're men, and they go off hitting all over the place. They'd be better off if they'd played like women.

Bobby Riggs

WomenMenGameThinkBetterPlace

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

Arthur Balfour

ManPromisesThoughtYoungYoung Man

And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.

Archie Shepp

WindowTransformationOutUpThrown

Music has always been a large part of my life, and I'm very fortunate to be able to start a career doing something I love.

Armaan Malik

LifeLoveMusicStartMy LifeDoing

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