"I really wanted to, but I just didn't understand how people became comedians. I kind of thought it was something you were born into. And so I wanted to be a veterinarian or an architect. I wanted to be in a band, and for some reason I could understand how you could be in a band because I had guitars and all my friends played music. Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued."

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Source : "Tig Notaro: You’ll Laugh, You’ll Cry". Interview with Sydney Brownstone, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2013.

Tig Notaro

#Guitar Quotes #People Quotes #Comedian Quotes

“Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.”

Source : Chip Heath, Dan Heath (2008). “Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck”, p.67, Random House
“Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.”
“My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.”
“God did not make a mistake when He chose you to bear Christ's name at this hinge of history.”

Source : David Shibley (1997). “Once in a Lifetime: Seizing Today's Opportunities for World Harvest”, Sovereign World Limited
“When you die, you know, you hear the insistent pounding that defines all things, whether of matter or energy, since there is nothing in the universe, really, but proportion.”
“Arsenal have a goalkeeper emergency at the moment. I'll gladly step in.”
“Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.”

Source : Upton Sinclair (2014). “The Profits of Religion”, p.19, Trajectory Inc
“If you want to be President, decide it at the age of five, and then live accordingly.”

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