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But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

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Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

I Love Ideas Jokes Love
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The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.
Audience Doing Feedback Front
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Believe Comprehend Creed
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One mustn't close one's eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

Close Difficulty Shortcoming Recognizes
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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

Government Proves Dictatorship Transient
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The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.

Crafts Learn Life Long
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

Never Prayer God Enemies
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With Heaven’s aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you.

Empire Heaven Aid Conquered
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Short is the way from need to greed.

Greed Short Need
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
Caused Men Short Trouble
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Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.

America Destroyed Habitat Honest
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I think that since it's prom, you should definitely wear a long dress. You can wear a short one anytime! This is the moment when you get to be a princess, and for me, that means a sweetheart neckline, long, then pouf - out and big.

Anytime Big Definitely Dress
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The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

Am England Excellent Green
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There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.

Creating Down Hardly Lead
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When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

1930s Almost Almost Nothing Early
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

Begin Fiction Form Likely
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If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

Any Apprenticeship Enough Kind
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Aware Bored Happiness He
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.

Fought People Slept Habit
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We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.

Made Plenty Mistakes Never
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I’m pretty set in my ways. I doubt anything short of a miracle would change me. I do have an open mind, and I listen to them.

Pretty Ways Anything Miracle
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Ability Falls Hits Mark
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“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

Kind Words Short Easy
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Don’t be hard on yourself, or hate yourself, or criticise yourself, or disparage yourself. There are enough haters in the world ready to do that. The shortage is in people who will love you. If you must do anything, let it be loving yourself!

Hate yourself Hard Haters Love
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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
Men Regretting Life Short
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All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.

Drink Remedy Recover Short
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Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
People Children Walk Keep
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Actually, we have no problems-we have opportunities for which we should give thanks... An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them.

Opportunities Thanks Courage Wisdom
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Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.

Analyze Life Shortcoming Minimize
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Enlightening Eyes Falling Love
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.

Always Because Circumstance Extreme
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
Cancer Challenge Day Every
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Don’t cut short your dream. Dream on. Dreams are free. Live your dream.

Short Dream Live
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Our youths, in particular, can see no hope on the horizon, and many can only dream of escaping from our shores to join the brain drain. Is this the Nigeria we want? We are plagued also by periodic balance of payments crises, which have led to a perennial shortage of essential drugs, that has turned our hospitals and clinics into mortuaries.

Youths Horizon Dream Escaping
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If we are to be fruitful in life and enjoy the harvest of honor, accolades and recognition, we must realize that there are no shortcuts.

Fruitful Enjoy Harvest Honor
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If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

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A rock musician's career is short-lived. To extend it, you need to do other things to keep yourself fresh.

Career Extend Fresh Keep
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Having to become a totally different person at a short notice is quite challenging…

Totally Person Challenging
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Life is too short to dwell on things that make you unhappy.
Life Short Dwell Unhappy
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Brethren, don’t make the mistake of selling yourself short. No matter the size of your challenges, you can be sure that you & God can work it together.

Work God Sure Size
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Life is short. Make every side-eye count.

Life Short Count
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Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music.. some intimate, low-voiced, and delicate things in our mostly huge and roaring, glaring world?

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To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Freedoms Going Our Period
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Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

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Avoid taking ‘short-cuts’ to success because there are not any. If you do, you will find yourself out on a lonely road watching dreams pass by you!

Success Short-cut Lonely Dreams
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Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.
Life Short Butterfly Average
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I’m a godmother, that’s a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that’s cute, I taught her that.

Godmother Great thing God
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You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

Anybody Balancing Eat Grow
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Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

Any Company Earnings Five
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