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Janeane Garofalo Quotes

You just need an opportunity and then you yourself have to do a good job, and then you hope that people go, 'Oh yeah, I forgot about her.'

Janeane Garofalo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: September 28, 1964

Topics

Good Opportunity Hope Job Yourself

I have an enormous family because I'm from Montreal and my family's Catholic, so my dad has eight siblings and they all have kids and we all grew up in the same property on weekends and summers.

Family Same Up Weekends Property

Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.

Matthew Desmond

Family Man People Literature You

They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.

Ugly Crime Turn Things Theft Than

Let's just cut a live record with three microphones in four days and talk about lizards and aliens. If I had taken that idea to even an independent label, I don't see a label out there that would've said, 'Oh yeah, that sounds great. We know how to market this.'

Sturgill Simpson

Live Great Know Said Three Talk

The secret is not to act, but to be.

He must be independent and brave, and sure of himself and of the importance of his work, because if he isn't he will never survive the scorching blasts of derision that will probably greet his first efforts.

Robert E. Sherwood

Work Brave Survive Independent Never

I gravitated toward stand-up because there's no overhead. I mean, literally, there's no overhead: Often, you're outdoors performing in front of groups of people.

People Outdoors You Mean Performing

The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.

Positive Change Years Technological

Life is a glass of wine and having your feet washed - it's a biblical event, might I add. This is part of mankind's story. You are always looking for a moment to take a break.

Life Moment Looking Feet Story Wine

I grew up watching and learning from the ultimate partnership, and that is of my father and late uncle.

Learning Father Partnership Uncle Up

There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision to us.

Life Decision Animal End Task Take

I think the truest things come from silence, but everything's always so clogged up with noise. If everything falls away, and you can truly listen to someone, giving them yourself and generosity, you can truly lose yourself in what they're saying. Like, not impose your ideas on what they're saying, but really tune into them.

Silence Yourself Generosity Ideas

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