"The object of art is to give life shape."

-- Jean Anouilh

#Art Quotes #Giving Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“When you go out there to do comedy, you feel like you're doing battle with the audience a lot of the time. You're either going to get 'em, or you're not.”

Source : "Rob Riggle: Why It's Okay to Laugh at Jerks". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. March 15, 2012.
“Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.”
“I don't like to act in my personal life. I like to be straightforward.”
“I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions. There's a big taboo in fiction creative writing workshops against using the self at all, and I think I try to encourage students to write the self, but to connect the self to something larger, which is to be this thinking, seeing, searching, eternally curious person, and that writing can come out of investigating and trying to understand confusion, and doubts, and obsessions.”
“All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity.”
“We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.”
“Isn't that what growing up is all about - learning to outlast despair?”
“I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.”

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