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Lewis Black Quotes

What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you're slamming your head against the wall. So it's nice to make a breakthrough and not kind of lying there with your head bleeding.

Lewis Black

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: August 30, 1948

Topics

Time People Feel Trying You Wall

After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing all these songs, just taking advantage of the relaxed situation. I wrote about 30 songs in about 30 days.

Jimmy Chamberlin

Home Myself Writing Situation Days

I would love for there to be a 'Voodoo Dreams' movie, especially after seeing the glorious 'Beasts of the Southern Wild.' I so admired how the filmmakers captured Louisiana and the magical atmosphere. I cried.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Love Dreams Seeing Wild Magical

People think of me as a nice person because, I think, I have grown into a nice person.

John Darnielle

People Me Think Person Nice Because

Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.

Max Beerbohm

Woman Loved Hatred Hateful Objects

In 1991, I didn't have $2,000 to go on vacation.

John Schnatter

Vacation Go

Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their standard of living. Everybody wants to be rich, and especially those that go to Washington.

Rush Limbaugh

Life Money Rich Charity Go Living

For writers, you just have to have the ability to not restrict your imagination. Men can write about women; women can write about men. Straight people can write about gay people; gay people can write about straight people.

Mike O'Malley

Women Men Imagination People You

You can't start a product simply by building it. You have to know why you're building it, and you might go down the wrong rabbit hole, waste time, and confuse things. Spending long afternoons with a sketchbook or talking through your ideas with other people can save a year in software development later on.

Mike Krieger

Time People Ideas Building Start

It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.

Devon Aoki

Yourself Difficult See Without Up

When someone is on the phone telling me a story, I'm hearing the soundtrack that goes with it.

Delilah

Me Story Someone Phone Hearing Goes

Even the things we are certain about are only an illusion. We are born with a female side and a male side, and these two sides are always fighting and challenging each other. This is why anything we want to do, we have the other side of telling us not to do it, to be careful about it.

Asghar Farhadi

Fighting Illusion Born Want Why

You don't want to be a gimmick. You don't want to be a set piece, where people go, 'Hey, that's weird.'

Ato Essandoh

People Weird You Go Want Where