"My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day."

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Source : "New Girl's Jake Johnson". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. May 8, 2012.

Jake M. Johnson

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“And I don't give a damn about a greenback dollarSpend it fast as I can for a wailin' song and a good guitarThe only things that I understand, oh yeah.”
“Hollywood is definitely now embracing a more natural approach to beauty. Staying "youthful-looking" is old news.”
“It's definitely different in the States. Americans are much different people compared to us. We're much more laid back. I itch to get back to Australia every summer because it's so fast paced there and so stressful.”
“Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.”
“I notice that, in the lecture … which Prof. Lowry gave recently, in Paris … he brought forward certain freak formulae for tartaric acid, in which hydrogen figures as bigamist … I may say, he but follows the loose example set by certain Uesanians, especially one G. N. Lewis, a Californian thermodynamiter, who has chosen to disregard the fundamental canons of chemistry—for no obvious reason other than that of indulging in premature speculation upon electrons as the cause of valency”
“The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.”
“I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.”
“The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.”

Source : Bel Kaufman (1964). “Up the down staircase”

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