"I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there."

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Nicole Holofcener

#Personality Quotes #Feels Quotes #Native Quotes

“When you start doing comedy, you think to yourself, "I want to be a headliner." And you become a headliner, and you're like, "Oh wait, this isn't what I meant. I meant I want to be a headliner that's famous enough that people come see me specifically." And that's a huge leap, because most of the time most of the audience is there to see comedy in general. They're not there to see you.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.
“Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.”
“You always fashioned yourself as the Empireâ€™s harshest Fist, didnâ€™t you, Korbolo Dom? As if crueltyâ€™s a virtueâ€¦”
“Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process or contrivance, and of the causes by which they are brought about, to explain the operation and determine the precise value of every new invention. This fixes as it were the latitude and longitude of each discovery, and enables us to place it in that part of the map of human knowledge which it ought to occupy. It likewise enables us to use it in taking bearings and distances, and in shaping our course when we go in search of new discoveries.”
“I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.”
“Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.”
“Celebrities are fun, but you don't really get a lot out of them. It's not like they're going to sit and tell you the most interesting thing, unless you're friends with them.”
“There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib”

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