"Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality."

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Source : "Exclusive Interview: Steve Coogan". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. February 19, 2009.

Steve Coogan

#Reality Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Comedy Quotes

“Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -”
“Nowadays are the world doesn't need words, but lives which cannot be explained except through faith & love for Christ's poor”
“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.”

Source : Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.33, Feminist Press at CUNY
“If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them”
“An ideology critique that does not clearly accept its identity as satire can, however, easily be transformed from an instrument in the search for truth into one of dogmatism. All too often, it interferes with the capacity for dialogue instead of opening up new paths for it.”

Source : "Critique of Cynical Reason". Book by Peter Sloterdijk, 1983.
“Never believe a prediction that does not empower you.”
“On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.”

Source : "The Unexpurgated Code". Book by J. P. Donleavy, 1975.
“My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.”

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