"You have to get through periods of being blocked. Everybody has them. For me, they have everything to do with self-doubt. It's never a matter of laziness or inability. It's just a matter of believing that what I'm doing is worthwhile, that it matters.I just make myself work. I just make myself go to work, whether I feel like it or not."

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David Small

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“Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me.”

Source : "MY LA: Pauly Shore Talks Being Chauffeured By Comedians, Why Michael Bay Hates Him and How He Really Feels About The Valley". Interview with Sasha Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2011.
“How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?”
“Over the years I have photographed thousands of people. I have never stopped being curious and trying to discover new worlds. I have used my camera as a mirror for my subjects as well. I remember photographing a woman in her 80s for my book, Wise Women, who told me it had been a long time since anyone had really been interested in "seeing" or photographing her. When she saw the picture, she burst into tears. She saw something in the photograph, an inner beauty and soul, she felt had long ago vanished.”
“In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.”

Source : Kristina Mcmorris (2012). “Bridge of Scarlet Leaves”, p.82, Kensington Publishing Corp.
“The point I'm trying to make is if these networks of communication technologies are owned, monetized, surveilled, and classified by those with power - very few people, mainly white men in Silicon Valley - then it is a global village build upon the ideas, visions, words, and protocols of the few. So it's not global - it's like Epcot center. It's like Disneyland: a small worldview of the larger world.”
“What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.”
“I donâ€™t think Iâ€™ve said this on camera, (but Ricky Williams) is the largest part of why I chose to come play for UT”
“As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.”

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