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I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.
Patti Smith
AllPeople
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90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.
Patton Oswalt
Art
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Drive
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
Jack Nicholson
Age
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Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
Jack Nicholson
Actor
Basically
Because
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Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
Jack Nicholson
Around
Financially
Know
Lost
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I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
Jack Nicholson
About
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson
First
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I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
Jack Nicholson
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
Jack Nicholson
Able
Artists
Because
Been
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I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do.
Patton Oswalt
Best
Ever
Now
Right
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I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.
Patton Oswalt
Bad
Comedians
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In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.
Jack Nicholson
Actor
Any
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Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.
Patton Oswalt
Began
Early
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Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.
Jack Nicholson
Almost
Almost Everyone
Everyone
Me
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
Jack Nicholson
Been
Going
Here
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With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the street, untrained, and kind of horrible.
Patton Oswalt
Acting
Great
Horrible
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
Jack Nicholson
Girlfriend
Lie
Life
Only
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All the truly great stand-ups say, 'I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work.' To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.
Patton Oswalt
Doing
End
Go
Great
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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
Jack Nicholson
Fat
Jack
Jack Nicholson
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Jack Nicholson
Big
Blues
Delta
Easy
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Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, 'This is where I wanna be.'
Patton Oswalt
Back
Before
Comedians
Doing
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To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.
Patton Oswalt
Asked
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
Jack Nicholson
Award
Earned
Every
High
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There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone.
Patton Oswalt
Against
Always
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I'm going to continue to try to strike a balance, because I really, really do love doing stand-up, and I don't see why it should affect the acting.
Patton Oswalt
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Balance
Because
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
Jack Nicholson
Back
Class
Half
Last
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One of my groupies gave me a film that they made, and it ended up being amazing, so I got it shown at South by Southwest. If I can help get their stuff out there, then great.
Patton Oswalt
Amazing
Being
Ended
Film
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If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!
Jack Nicholson
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It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.
Jack Nicholson
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
Jack Nicholson
Felt
Irresistible
Life
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
Jack Nicholson
Chance
Everything
Everywhere
Go
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The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.
Kobe Bryant
Important
Important Thing
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I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.
Kobe Bryant
Also
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I focus on one thing and one thing only - that's trying to win as many championships as I can.
Kobe Bryant
Championships
Focus
I Can
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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
Actually
Anew
Because
Close
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Patton Oswalt
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Enough
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Hand
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I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.
Patton Oswalt
Act
Like
Write
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There are times when I have to take, I call it a 'silence bath,' where I shut off all of the external gadgets. I go walk around, talk to people, and just live life for a while.
Patton Oswalt
Around
Bath
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External
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I know how my body operates differently from what it did when it was 30 and when it was 20. As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.
Patton Oswalt
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If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go do a couple theaters Friday, Saturday, maybe Sunday, come home.
Patton Oswalt
Actually
Because
Come
Could
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The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.
Patton Oswalt
Card
Chicken
Corporation
Fried
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I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.
Patton Oswalt
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Airport
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As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.
Patton Oswalt
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Draw
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Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.
Patton Oswalt
Acting
Actor
Any
Beyond
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Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte; I didn't know what I was doing, and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.
Patton Oswalt
Acting
Always
Any
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Patton Oswalt
Bugs
Bunny
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Take up a new challenge and defeat yourself again, because the true competition is with yourself even when you play with others. If you scored 1 today aim for 3 next time.
Frank Edwards
Take up
New challenge
True competition
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Everybody wants to blow, nobody wants to grow but growth is necessary so you can be rooted properly and you can shoot out taller and higher.
Frank Edwards
Everybody
Blow
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Dear young minister, believe me, no matter how anointed, and gifted you are, having a good pastor over you is priceless.
Nathaniel Bassey
Young minister
Believe me
Anointed
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We tend to look for value in the size and volume of external possessions rather than seeing our value from our location, CHRIST!
Nathaniel Bassey
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