"I've had plenty of friends tell me that their first time doing stand-up, they do well, and then they tank for a while after that. Kind of like the first time you do a drug, you're like, "Huh! This is pretty darn good," and then you spend all your money trying to get the same high."

-- Jim Gaffigan

#Drug Quotes #Trying Quotes #Tanks Quotes

“I have always been accused of taking the things I love â€“ football, of course, but also books and records â€“ much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me. Perhaps it was these desperate, bitter men in the West Stand at Arsenal who taught me how to get angry in this way; and perhaps it is why I earn some of my living as a critic â€“ maybe itâ€™s those voices I can hear when I write. â€˜Youâ€™re a WANKER, X.â€™ â€˜The Booker Prize? THE BOOKER PRIZE? They should give that to me for having to read you.”
“Invest in helping people know what matters to them and who matters to them (and why), and encourage them to continually experiment with how they get things done in ways the serve their interests and yours as an employer.”
“I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.”
“A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have no vital place in a record of crime and deduction. They hold up the action and introduce issues irrelevant to the main purpose, which is to state a problem, analyze it, and bring it to a successful conclusion. To be sure, there must be a sufficient descriptiveness and character delineation to give the novel verisimilitude.”

Source : S. S. Van Dine (2015). “Twenty Rules For Writing Detective Stories”, p.6, Booklassic
“The world has certain rules - Hollywood has certain rules - but it doesn't mean you have to play by them, and I don't, or I'd be a miserable person.”
“There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.”
“I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it's because I'm as old as I am! But it's just polite.”
“I know it's wrong, but I'm weak.”

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