"I'm trying to manufacture a sleepover feel; like a tree house or a clubhouse. I want people to be silly and play and feel safe and some people, you have to coax them into that space and some people bring me further into that space, even past the point that I wanted to go."

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Source : Source: www.avclub.com

Pete Holmes

#Silly Quotes #Past Quotes #Play Quotes

“I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.”
“I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about later. My technique could be compared to having a large canvas and coming in every day and putting a dot on it somewhere, and after several years - literally - I begin to say, That reminds me of an elephant, so I think I'll make it one.”
“You have to understand how bad I wanted to be a comedian, how much I loved doing it. I still can't believe I get to do this for a living and have people come up and want to see me.”
“I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be had, either by persuasion or by bribery. They will not need persuasion or bribery, if their hearts are with us; if they are not, we are better without them. It is idle to suppose that the kingdom of heaven cannot come on earth, without their cooperation.”

Source : "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman" by Sarah Moore Grimke, Letter 15 (October 20, 1837), 1837.
“For me, I was raped in my own dorm bed. Since then, it has basically become fraught for me, and I feel like I've carried the weight of what happened there with me everywhere since then.”

Source : "Columbia University Student Will Drag Her Mattress Around Campus Until Her Rapist Is Gone" by Sarah Barness, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2014.
“I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them.”
“Have dreams/goals and never quit working toward achieving them.”

Source : "Origin Series: Empire Actor Adam Rodriguez". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.”

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