"Oulipo ends where the work begins."

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Source : "Oulipo ends where the work begins" by Christopher R. Beha, www.believermag.com. September 2006.

Paul Fournel

“I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.”
“Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit. That's why you should never date a baseball player.”
“Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written.”
“Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.”
“I make these little films. I'm just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It's more sociological, and it's funny anyway - not that serious. It's not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.”
“I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for its part in everything-but the moment you enjoy what you're doing, you try to express yourself, to find your way, and every time is different, of course.”

Source : "Diva Cecilia Bartoli". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. November 9, 1998.
“If you want a lot of visual humor, the way to do it is have visual people do it.”

Source : "We Just Keep Trying to Beat Every Show With the Funny Stick Until It's Funny". Interview with Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. June 10, 2015.

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