"I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second."

-- Jack Dee

#Comedian Quotes #Comedy Quotes

“If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.”

Source : "Jimmy Iovine, Eddy Cue Talk Filling the 'Hole' With Apple Music". Interview with Steve Knopper, www.rollingstone.com. June 8, 2015.
“...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.”

Source : James Lee Burke (2002). “Jolie Blon's Bounce: A Novel”, p.327, Simon and Schuster
“Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.”
“It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.”
“Alone among all creatures, the species that styles itself wise, Homo sapiens, has an abiding interest in its distant origins, knows that its allotted time is short, worries about the future and wonders about the past.”
“In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And absence of energy, a curiosity that was too sharp to be crushed immediately, a lack of order in his ideas, a weakening of his spiritual boundaries, which were promptly twisted, an excessive passion for running along forked roads and wearying of the path as soon as he had started on it, mental indigestion demanding varied dishes, quickly tiring of the foods he desired, digesting almost all, but badly, was his state.”
“I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.”
“I have a friend who loves housework. Honest, she loves all housework. All day long she moves from one chore to the next, smiling the whole time. I went over there one day and begged her to tell me her secret. It's simple, she said, right after breakfast you light up a joint.”

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