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Doug Stanhope Quotes

There's a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue, when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years.

Doug Stanhope

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: March 25, 1967

Topics

Brain Night Comedy Tongue Say Over

If we want politics to be the kind of arena where you're attracting and encouraging really competent people who do a job well because that's what they're supposed to do, then you have to pay them a salary that's commensurate with that.

Stephen J. Dubner

Politics Job People You Want Kind

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.

Steve Martin

Done Nothing Demand Popular

Writing is not a genteel profession; it's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

Rosemary Mahoney

Writing Tough Dirty Kind Nasty

My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family.

Jourdan Dunn

Family Love Cooking New Asian

I do a lot of collaborations and productions, whether it's Switch or Steve Aoki or No ID or Will Smith or No Doubt - I always like to collaborate and be a quality control person for the people 'cause I have my own taste in music and bring that to other peoples' brands and help them learn a little bit.

Diplo

Music Quality People Control Help

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

Brit Marling

Moment You Feeling Audience Film

The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan.

Anne Lamott

Great Team Wait Kind Republican Get

I'm real easy-going.

Prince

Real Easy-Going

I love Italian food; you can't go wrong with Rosebud, and of course, I like Lou Malnati's pizza.

Shanola Hampton

Love Food Pizza You Wrong Go

'Black Beauty,' by Anna Sewell, remains a star-dusted memory because my mom read it aloud to my sister and me at night for months. I was no more than 7.

Scott Turow

Beauty Memory Me Mom Sister Night

I'm as lame as all dads are.

Tim Matheson

Lame Dads

I've had a pretty chequered past, you know, as a kid, as a troubled kid.

Mark Hunt

Past You Know Kid Pretty Troubled