"It is difficult to keep the public interested. The public demands new wonders piled on new wonders. Often we don't know where our next marvel is coming from. The supply of strange ideas is not endless."

-- Donald Barthelme

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“When I planned my wedding the first time, my ex-husband and I, we were both struggling comics. I had a TV show that had gotten cancelled. Basically, I rented a wedding gown; the reception hall smelled like feet.”

Source : "Sherri Shepherd Talks: Marriage Life, Divorce, Parenting & Advice On Catching A Man" by Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2011.
“The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.”
“I think a double bass for me would be too much effort. But the cello, you're really engaged and the sound is kind of right here. So, it feels like being merged, married to an instrument.”
“I have a huge support base of people that love me around the world: millions of fans and supporters and growing.”
“It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.”
“All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and lucid experience...Genuine integration of this point produces a profound change in the individual's response to the world. Grasping and aversion is greatly diminished, and the emotional tangles that once seemed so compelling are experienced as the tug of dream stories, and no more.”
“I've lived the way I wanted to. I've walked the road the way I imagined it.”
“I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice.”

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