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Tig Notaro Quotes

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: March 24, 1971

Topics

Good People Luck Good Luck Bad Much

Creating films and photographs through situations that few others could experience is my life's inspiration.

Life Experience Creating Others Few

It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirst for something more communal, more participative. That, to me, is what is interesting in this process.

Me Process Interesting More Economic

The anger from Occupy Wall Street is coming from this simple fact: America no longer seems to be a place where you can work your way up, from rags to riches, from lower class to middle class to upper class.

Work Simple Anger America You Wall

Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more often used to persuade audiences, as they use these stealth tools of disguise and deception.

Maximillian Degenerez

Character Listening Tools Person

Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I do.

Work Think Meaning Why Understand

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.

John Stuart Blackie

God Men Man Solitude Speak Wit

There was a time when watching a cartoon was a nurturing experience. You would watch a Warner Bros. cartoon, and at the end of it you could probably win 'Jeopardy.'

Time Experience Win End You Cartoon

There's one thing to say about John Boehner. He's a fighter. He does fight. And if there is somebody you want in the foxhole with you, it's going to be John Boehner.

Fight You Say Want Fighter Going

If my parents really understood how much I've learned that I could never learn in school, they'd be very proud. Instead, I'm still their crazy kid, sagging his pants and dancing around on the laptop.

School Parents Crazy Proud Learn

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Youth Famous Fame Thirst

Doing multiple character work is athletic in every way - vocally, physically, spiritually, and mentally. With a show like 'Passing Strange,' I usually lose about 12 pounds.

Work Character Doing Lose Strange

I used to draw stickmen with star glasses when I was at school. I didn't realise that would end up being me! The whole idea was that the glasses had mirrors, and if a youngster looked at me, they'd see themselves. Everybody is a star.

School Me Glasses End Mirrors See

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