Nyc Quotes
What is more dramatic, even romantic, than the tumbled towers of lower Manhattan, rising suddenly to...
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…you either do or do not have a comedy mind, whatever that is, maybe a heightened sense of the ridic...
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I am driven. Being driven is my energy source. It is my fun.…I believe that where there is action, t...
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I had a blind date with a dentist — and he told me to come back in six months.

The revelation that personal truth can be the foundation of comedy, that outrageousness can be clean...
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The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a but...
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When you begin to losing your audience, do not get loud; get quiet, make them find you and come back...
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Laughing made me feel safe. I was not going to be enveloped by the seediness that coated this world ...
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Maybe that is why in my comedy I try and puncture the hypocrisy all around us, why it is almost a cr...
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It gathers emotionally inside you, in a strange way a by-product of struggle, of a willingness to do...
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Liked" was the kiss of death. "Loved" or "hated" interested him. At least the performer had aroused ...
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Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and emb...
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I said, "Is there!" I told him there is a Mafia school where they teach them math — if Johnny has te...
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…but I think comedy is more aggressive than that. It is a medium for revenge. We can deflate and pun...
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People say it is not the key to happiness, but I have always figured if you have enough money you ca...
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Everything comes out of smoke and mist and nothingness, a mystical happening…

I'd known since I was a child that I was going to live in New York eventually, and that everything i...
Show MoreA Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The thi...
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People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life...
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Sometimes, down in the subway, a train Maxine's riding on will slowly be overtaken by a local or an ...
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