"I think comedy is no different now than it was at other points. It takes a long time to get good and know how to distill what makes you funny beyond the realm of standup, which is what I'm trying to do with 'Teachers Lounge.'"

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Source : "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

Ted Alexandro

#Teacher Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.”
“Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.”
“TV is a much more female-friendly environment.”
“When you're talking to a person about something they want to talk about then it takes that frown to a smile and then it makes the interview pleasant because hitting them where they want to be hit or hitting them where they normally don't have an opportunity to express.”
“In life some people trip and some fall but some take that trip and make a beautiful dance out of it.”
“If you're tired of getting additional information, you can just close your eyes, get some sleep. But earlids, covering of the ears, never evolved. Not once do we find it, even in the fossil records. Because while we let our eyes relax, our ears are still hearing. And that's why alarm clocks work and wake us up. We still gather information. Every animal is gathering information 24/7. So I like to think of acoustic ecologists as people who are trying to become better listeners, 24/7.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.”
“I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.”

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