Patton Oswalt Quotes

If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently.

Patton Oswalt

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But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success.

Jesse James Garrett

SuccessBestTeamImportantCommon

Old #64 chose... a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me. They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them.

Jerry Kramer

LiveMeSlowLovedEnoughAlive

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

John Cheever

PeopleMoralsPhilosophyLookAlways

Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God.

Meir Soloveichik

GodFocusWillTorahJewsEmbodied

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.

Robert Kiyosaki

EnvironmentPersonNeverYearsGoing

'Hill Street,' because of the wacky nature of many of our characters, really allowed us to indulge a kind of cheek-to-jowl juxtaposition of high drama with very low humor.

Steven Bochco

NatureHumorDramaKindStreetHill

There is absolutely no doubt that Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF have lost the popular support of the people of Zimbabwe. And the more they become intransigent, the more they become vicious and try to repress people, the more it turns people against them, and the less chance they have of ever holding onto power.

Roy Bennett

PowerSupportPeopleChanceDoubt

Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.

Mary McGrory

ManHairGenerationGrowAmerica

We moved around a bit when I was younger, but I grew up primarily in Rhode Island, in a beautiful seaside community called East Greenwich. It was a small town, and so safe that we rarely locked our doors at night.

Michelle Gagnon

CommunityBeautifulNightSmallUp

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

Alice Walker

ParentsAlwaysBothStorytellers

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

Alicia Keys

I AmStay FocusedWantFocusedStay

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.

Peter Fonda

WorkKnowledgeGreatEgoEnergySay

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