Tig Notaro Quotes

People have responded to my stories so well. They come up after a show and say things like, 'Your album really helped me,' or 'I have stage four cancer. I'm terminally ill.' Somebody told me it gave them the courage to die.

Tig Notaro

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I was sick and tired of reading other people's epigraphs. They all seemed to be in ancient Greek, middle French or, when they were translated, they never seemed to relate to the book at hand. Basically, they seemed to be there just to baffle you and to impress you with how smart the writer is.

Jim Crace

SmartTiredPeopleBookReadingYou

Good products win out.

Jerry Della Femina

GoodWinOutProducts

It's just as easy for me to be building a fence somewhere and scraping by on unemployment in between doing a guest star spot. I've been there.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

MeBuildingDoingFenceEasyStar

Great VCs do everything they can to make you successful. But just like your bank, credit card company, mortgage holder, etc. they are not confused where their long-term loyalty lies.

Steve Blank

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A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I don't know what they think.

Stephan Pastis

PeopleMeThinkFeedbackHideKnow

I work with a lot of young people who have poems that are changing their lives, that they're eager to talk about, but every now and then when I meet someone, maybe someone of my parents' generation, and I tell them that I write poetry, they'll begin to recite something that they memorized when they were in school that has never left them.

Tracy K. Smith

WorkSchoolPoetryParentsPeople

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

Tracy Morgan

FreedomSpeechYouFreedom Of Speech

We can either rip your face up with 'Painkiller,' or we can play this beautiful thing called 'Last Rose of Summer' from 'Sin After Sin.' And people love us for that because they don't really know what to expect.

Rob Halford

LoveBeautifulPeopleRoseFaceSin

My wife can't cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat.

Rodney Dangerfield

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I was in L.A., like, four months, and I got my first part. Then I was like, 'OK, I'm staying.'

Michael Pena

FirstGotLikeFourOKStaying

The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.

Michael Pollan

FamilyDemocracyLearnDoingGo

I'm not a girl anymore.

Miranda Lambert

GirlAnymore

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