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"I had some friends that tried it down there, and I went to a couple of open mics, and I just kind of got this... this sick urge to try it instead of just watching it."
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"Friendship is a magnificent art of life that is drawn by two hearts and two minds."

"Because God is love the most important lesson He wants you to learn on earth is how to love."

"I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you."

"Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship."

"Best friends are those people who reveal to you what is wonderful inside of you, and you can all still laugh together."

"Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs."

"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them."

"It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on."

"The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ."

"Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."
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"I mean, I guess I realized subconsciously that this is what I should be doing before I realized it, consciously. Verbally, I don't think I had committed to it, even though I was driving everywhere, every night, just trying to get on stage."


"I must have done everything I had. You go through years where you go through everything you've ever written."


"I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage."


"People don't understand that that's really what it is. They're looking for a magic phone number or something. And to a certain extent, I understand that, because comedy is treated so much as a stepping stone by a lot of people."


"I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work."
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