"I think a lot of people get into stand-up to be the center of attention, which is perfectly legitimate. But I think I got in there to be heard."

-- W. Kamau Bell

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Attention Quotes

“Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.”
“Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.”

Source : SAUL BELLOW (1971). “MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET”
“I get very cranky when interrupted. I snap at people, sigh dramatically and slam my door shut.”
“Ringo, the last to become a Beatle, came into the group not because I wanted him, but because the boys did. To be completely honest, I was not at all keen to have him. I thought his drumming rather loud, his appearance unimpressive, and I could not see why he was important to the Beatles. But again I trusted their instincts and I am grateful now. He has become an excellent Beatle and a devoted friend. Ringo is warm and wry-witted, a good drummer, and I like him enormously. He is a very uncomplicated, very nice young man.”
“Stuff I like is getting trashed and stuff that is being praised I think is terrible. I don't really feel in sync with what's happening, but at the same time, what I think keeps me afloat is that I try not to be, and don't want to be, very indulgent. I try to make the films as lean as possible, and to not spend a lot of time crawling up my own ***** creatively.”
“The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.”

Source : Eric Sevareid (1964). “This is Eric Sevareid”
“Given one has before oneself a strong, healthy, youth rich in spirited blood and a powerless, weak, cachectic old man scarcely capable of breathing. If now the physician wishes to practise the rejuvenating art on the latter, he should make silver tubes which fit into each other: open then the artery of the healthy person and introduce one of the tubes into it and fasten it into the artery; thereupon he opens also the artery of the ill person...”
“Well, I've been a fan of videogames all my life.”

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