"You can be an amateur and have a passion for something, but it takes a long time to actually become a professional, meaning that you can handle any situation."

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Source : "Patton Oswalt Talks TRAGEDY PLUS COMEDY EQUALS TIME, Doing Another Stand-Up Special, Preparing to Shoot Live Performances & Upcoming TV Guest Spots". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 16, 2014.

Patton Oswalt

#Passion Quotes #Long Quotes #Situation Quotes

“I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.”
“Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.”
“Though Jack Nubbins was extremely talented, Quenten Cassidy had viewed the Specter; when he reached down through the familiar layers of gloom and fatigue he generally found more there than a nameless and transient desire to acquire plastic trophies. He and Nubbins were not even in the same ball park.”
“I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.”
“Perhaps after all the most breathtaking quality about San Francisco is these unexpected glimpses that you are always getting of beautiful hill-heights and beautiful valley-depths. ... City lights, like nests of diamonds, glitter and glisten in the depths of those valleys.”
“After seeing what I have seen on my journey, my advice to upcoming musicians would have to be... always have your vision in sight. Do music the way you envisioned yourself doing music no matter what it cost.”
“Our best long-term and intermediate cycles suggest another slowdown and stock crash accelerating between very early 2014 and early 2015, and possibly lasting well into 2015 or even 2016. The worst economic trends due to demographics will hit between 2014 and 2019. The U.S. economy is likely to suffer a minor or major crash by early 2015 and another between late 2017 and late 2019 or early 2020 at the latest.”
“That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.”

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