"Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it's a burning desire, you'll quit when the consistent bombing becomes too much to take."

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Source : Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

#Comedian Quotes #Desire Quotes #Burning Quotes

“I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.”
“We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do not place an intolerable burden on our environment”
“I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly”
“Saying no isn't easy, but it's a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes too often, you'll likely fall into the common trap of saying yes to the good while simultaneously saying no to the best.”
“Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive.”
“You don't have to be big to be great.”
“The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.”
“I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.”

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