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“A lot of comedy is really DIY. You're kind of doing it yourself.”

“A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.”

Children Actors Force Stupid Behavior Silly Comic Silly Things Childish Things

Author:Gene Wilder

“A lot of comic conventions go way beyond comic books and include other parts of pop culture, like celebrities and science fiction and movies and books. So I go to them either as a celebrity, or as a fan, because I'm a big sci-fi geek.”

Way Book Bigs Culture Fiction Fans Science Fiction Pops Comic Sci Fi Conventions Comic Book Geek Pop Culture

Author:Jane Wiedlin

“A lot of comics are kind of vampire types; we do our shows and disappear into the night. My philosophy was, this is like politics, and if I want people to know about my campaign, I'm going to go out there and shake hands.”

People Ifs Knows Want Kind Philosophy Shows Hands Night Type Disappear Campaigns Vampire Shakes

Author:Dane Cook

“A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.”

People Thinking Want I Can Character Can Do Rocks Jokes Screens Persona Over The Top Endearing Ranting And Raving

Author:Billy Eichner

“A lot of comics claimed to be political comedians when George W. Bush was in office just by calling him an idiot. For me, Obama is actually more interesting comically, because not everybody can figure it out.”

Political Interesting Office Idiot Comedian

Author:W. Kamau Bell

“A lot of comics just joke around, but it's just as important to get the truth out there.”

Important Jokes

Author:Lisa Lampanelli

“A lot of companies are still using social as the world’s shortest press release.”

World Stills Social Company Presses Marketing Release Press Release

Author:Jay Baer

“A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.”

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“A lot of companies have lots of assets tied up in plant and equipment. Well, is it old plant, or is it new plant?”

Wells Values Company Plant Investing Assets Tied Equipment Tied Up

Author:Walter Schloss

“A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.”

Certain Goal Numbers Company Diversity Performances Paid Executives Bonus

Author:Vernon Jordan

“A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.”

People Knows World Facts Stories Suffering Literature Compelling Compounds

Author:Anderson Cooper

“A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.”

World Has Beens Equal Missions Changing The World Composer Temperament

Author:Aphex Twin

“A lot of composers I know hate temp scores because people get attached to them.”

People Knows Hate Score Composer

Author:Steven Price

“A lot of Congressmen yesterday were upset when Kenneth Lay took the Fifth. Lay said it wasn't his fault. He had planned on testifying, but when Jeffrey Skilling testified, he took all the really good lies.”

Said Lying Lays Faults Yesterday Upset Fifth Congressman Kenneth Good Lies Testifying

Author:Jay Leno

“A lot of conservative writers have twisted that argument in the conversation around Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel and said this is identity politics as played by liberals. And that I think what they're trying to say is that progressives are the first to say.”

Thinking Trying Firsts Said Identity Judging Conversation Argument Conservative Twisted Identity Politics

Author:Dahlia Lithwick

“A lot of conservatives, a big part of the Republican base don't like his position on common core, don't like his position on immigration.”

Bigs Common Position Republican Core Immigration Common Core

Author:Jeb Bush

“A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.”

Way Culture Happenings Contemporary Gray Isolated American Culture Cuba County

Author:Assata Shakur

“A lot of controversy over this possible invasion of Iraq. In fact, Nelson Mandela was so upset, he called Bush's dad. How embarrassing, when world leaders start calling your father.”

World Facts Father Leader Dad Calling Iraq Upset Embarrassing Controversy Invasion Nelson World Leader

Author:Jay Leno

“A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of nameless, faceless plot points, and as an audience we don't feel anything for those people.”

People Feels Kind Shows Cases Audience Victim Plot Cop Episodes Restraint Nameless Faceless

Author:Mireille Enos

“A lot of corpses woke up every morning from their graves. Stood in front of the mirror and wore the masks which made them look alive. Stuck in the vicious circle of death. Scared to break out and scared of falling into the infinite pit of darkness, they beat down their souls that were fighting for an escape, mercilessly every day. They walked out into the world with pain, only to return back to the home, which did not feel like a home anymore, again in the night. They removed their masks in front of the mirror, stared into those empty eyes and walked back to their graves silently, with the fear of waking up again next day and with nothing to celebrate in their heart.”

Life Fear Silence Darkness Graves Mask Fight Celebration Corpses Mirror

Author:Akshay Vasu

Source: The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams

“A lot of countries break (or go against) the international law.”

Country Law Break International International Law

Author:Noam Chomsky

“A lot of countries do fight to maintain or expand their share of global investment in manufacturing.”

Country Fighting Share Investment Manufacturing

Author:Edward Alden

“A lot of countries have advanced capabilities. And given the vulnerabilities of our infrastructure and our economies to digital platforms, we have to be careful in making sure that this doesn't become a lawless, low-level battlefield.”

Country Given Levels Economy Lows Careful Vulnerability Digital Be Careful Capability Platforms Infrastructure Battlefields Low Level

Author:Barack Obama

“A lot of countries surrounding Italy aren't so bad. That's because the Roman Empire conquered and raped their women. So there is a little bit of Italian in everybody! This is good news, as all Italians bear this in mind when dealing with our neighbors and other foreign-fucked, heavily raped countries, and it gives us the resolve and compassion to deal with their bullshit.”

Humor Funny Comedy Quote International Rape Italy Roman Observations

Author:H.C. Blackburne

Source: Observations

“A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.”

Country Film Speak Japan Shy Speak English

Author:Hiroyuki Sanada

“A lot of country music is sad.”

Country Music Is

Author:Willie Nelson

“A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.”

Thinking World Art Country Hard Song Three Poverty Music Is Heartache Hard Times Chords

Author:Willie Nelson

“A lot of country pubs will receive Michelin stars.”

Country Stars Pubs

Author:Heston Blumenthal

“A lot of crafters, they're shut-ins.”

Crafters

Author:Amy Sedaris

“A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or were told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.”

Writing Looks Film Young Fiction Crime Personality Hero Taste Mediums Supposed To Be Lazy Grants Crime Fiction Fiction Writing Protagonists Taste In Music

Author:Peter Temple

“A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.”

Want Firsts Looks Critics Impression Compare Lazy First Impression

Author:Willem Dafoe

“A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.”

People Hard Laughing Comedy Objects Critics Making People Laugh

Author:Adam Sandler

“A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.”

Thinking Knows Writing Simple Stupid Direct Method Critics Sentences Defects

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

Source: If This Isn't Nice What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By

“A lot of cultures believe you take the placenta and you bury it and plant something.”

Believe Culture Plant Placenta

Author:Brooke Burke

“A lot of deaths feel sad. Philip Seymour Hoffman's feels like a robbery.”

Feels Philip Robbery

Author:James Poniewozik

“A lot of Democrats are not that upset with Howard Dean. Howard Dean gets out here and he says these inflammatory things, and he doesn't apologize. He doesn't back down a little bit.”

Littles Bits Little Bit Democrat Upset Apology Apologizing Dean

Author:Gwen Ifill

“A lot of Democrats ask and a lot of people ask, "Why is it necessary for people in this country, who are not in law enforcement, to have assault weapons?"”

People Country Law Asks Weapons Democrat Assault Law Enforcement Enforcement In-laws Assault Weapons

Author:Chuck Todd

“A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued a report today saying that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would cost the economy about 500,000 jobs...Why should we trust Democrats on anything when they couldn't have foreseen that this would be the case?”

“A lot of denim companies deal with what the shoes of the season are going to look like, and proportions to what people are wearing on top. If girls are wearing big sweatshirts they'll want a skinnier jean, and if they're wearing tight tops they'll want a wider jean. You have to play in the playground of what's happening culturally.”

People Girl

Author:Sean Barron

“A lot of designers get caught up in the creativity, but you've got to think about the legs of your collection - essentially, how the line is going to move forward.”

Thinking Moving Lines Creativity Caught Legs Moving Forward Designer Collections Caught Up

Author:Alexander Wang

“A lot of different races and nationalities play football, so it is a good way to try and stop racism.”

Way Trying Different Play Race Football Racism Nationality Good Way Different Races

Author:Thierry Henry

“A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.”

Years Art Ideas Different Together Decision Painting Different Things

Author:Gerhard Richter

“A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point to really engage the actors and really make it feel like a safe place for them to explore whatever it is they want to explore in whatever scene with their character.”

Thinking Knows Want Feels Character Actors Special Fine Scene Directors Safe Engagement Safe Places

Author:Will Estes

“A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.”

Doubt Directors Instinct Overbearing

Author:Omar Epps

“A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.”

Thinking Knows Want Wanted Directors Good Directors

Author:John Milius

“A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.”

Want Directors Pressure Size Thrive Pearls Harbors

Author:Michael Bay

“A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.”

Turns Objects Directors Sexuality Leading Ladies

Author:Diane Kruger

“A lot of directors on a base level are fearful of actors and maybe even distrustful. I love the craft of acting and I love actors so I think they can probably sense that. They also know that I understand what their process is, having done it myself. The thing I come back to over and over again is that for most people who are not analyzing it from a critical point of view, most iconic film moments are actor moments. We show up to commune with another human being and their experience. We don't show up necessarily to watch a really cool dolly shot.”

People Thinking Done Moments Film Acting Point Of View Fearful Really Cool Iconic

Author:Matt Ross

“A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.”

Film Process Solitude Directors Editing Craziness Film Set

Author:Alan Parker

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