Tig Notaro Quotes

#1. I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.

Kate Flannery

#2. In 27 years doing this, I've seen a handful of truly great, masterful standup sets. One was Tig Notaro last night at Largo.

Louis C.K.

#3. I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

William Petersen

#4. I think it would count more, if we did less personal appearances.

Jimi Hendrix

#5. Nothing so bad you need to be cruel. Tough, yes. You'll have to kill, yes. But there's a difference in the heart. One makes you mean. The other keeps you going.

Marjorie M. Liu

#6. When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.

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#7. Do your married friends tell you that you're too picky? Honey, they settled. Either that or they're not really your friends.

Maria Murnane

#8. Basically I'm a female human being with brown hair, enjoy precision, reading the news, eating delicious food with my delicious friends and laughing at ridiculous things that don't translate while you are desperately trying to make them.

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#9. Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

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#10. I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.

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#11. I talk better when I'm drinking coffee." "Me, too. If by coffee you mean beer, and by better you mean louder.

D.D. Barant

#12. I worked at restaurants and coffee shops and babysitting and just whatever I could do to make money.

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#13. My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

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#14. I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you?'

Kanye West

#15. [Art] acts as 'an instrument allowing us to see through the gaps of dominant ideologies, and the source from which new methods could be drawn in the struggle against the system(s)'.

Nicholas Gane

#16. I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

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#17. I didn't like to stop playing for a second to bother with eating or going to the bathroom. I was a really skinny kid, and I remember my mother always telling people, 'I don't know how she's alive. I think she gets all of her nutrients from air pollution.'

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#18. I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.

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#19. Hindsight isn't a super power.

SE Zbasnik

#20. I'm fascinated by caddy Buddhists popping up all over Hollywood and people that take themselves too seriously.

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#21. It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

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#22. When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

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#23. One doesn't just chuck away the story of one's life, however much one wishes it had read differently.

Eloise Jarvis McGraw

#24. It's almost embarrassing how much support I have. I mean, I always tell people I feel like I'm perfectly set up to have cancer. I have great health insurance, I have a savings account. I have work lined up. I have friends and family. I have the best doctors I can get.

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#25. It is inhuman to humanize animals, the consequences are very disturbing.

Joey Lawsin

#26. As a kid, I loved Paula Poundstone and Richard Pryor. But my mother was a huge influence on my comedy.

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#27. The constancy of the blood sugar level is maintained by a complex physiological mechanism, a homeostatic mechanism of the same order as those which maintain the body temperature, the blood pressure or the heart rate at normal levels and control many other functions.

Bernardo Houssay

#28. I was really into music. I started playing guitar also when I was nine. I wanted to be in the Beatles, even though John Lennon died the year I got a guitar and the Beatles broke up before I was born.

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#29. I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

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#30. Some people help thousands of people directly, like Marie Curie or Susan B. Anthony. Others help us by inspiring us, like Amelia Earhart. But you do have to help someone.

Brad Meltzer

#31. Comedy was a secret want, but it wasn't anything I pursued.

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#32. Reminding myself that I have a tailbone keeps me in check.

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#33. I'm knackered now," he admits. "I think you're actually going to have to help me to the room."
I laugh. "Really, granddad? You rock stars should come with some sort of disclaimer, warning us that reality doesn't always live up to the pretty package.

Lily Morton

#34. I'm the luckiest unlucky person.

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#35. Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.

Allen Klein

#36. I am just at tragedy right now.

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#37. One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time travel, the same way certain songs you hear on the radio do ... the whole thing returns, an eerie feeling that I'm sure you've experienced.

Philip K. Dick

#38. I'm not a religious person; I'm not even, like, a spiritual person.

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#39. My career has always kind of moved forward and upward. I've never had anything kind of stall out or go in the opposite direction. I've always kind of been moving in the right direction.

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#40. I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it.

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#41. One of my favorite songs is 'Ghost' by Indigo Girls. Emily Saliers wrote that, and she is one of the most talented songwriters ever.

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