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" Do your own thing. Speak in your voice. "
Dylan Moran
Voice
Your
Own
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" Have I had therapy? I went to a yoga class once. "
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" We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy. "
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" The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity. "
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" I'm delighted to make as many people feel ashamed as possible. There's probably a site like that for everybody. I've heard Newt Gingrich has his own as well. "
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" When I was young, all the politicians looked like ancient Latin teachers or greengrocers. They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair blowing in their eyes, walking into trees, opening the wrong door. They had no idea how to present themselves. "
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Trees
Door
" I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time. "
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" You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up. "
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Service
You
Growing
" I was very into New Order, Joy Division, all of that when I was younger. I had a lot of bootlegs that I saved up my pocket money to buy. I had all the obscure early EPs. "
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Up
Division
Joy
" In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways. "
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Inside
Same
Me
" I write all the time, but you just want to be careful what you put out. That's all. You want to have the confidence that you've done what you need to do to it, because otherwise it's an exercise in vanity. "
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Exercise
You
Time
" I don't watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the most. Something gets you when you're alone and someone's voice is coming through their work. There's a different quality to it that stays with you a bit more. "
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Voice
Stand Up
" I don't really think of myself as an actor. "
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Think
Really
" I suppose the best comedy shows do have the rock n' roll feeling - if it's a great night, and the roof is raised... yeah, it's a similar feeling, sure. "
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Best
Feeling
Great
" When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It's attacking boredom, as simple as that. I was 19 when I first went to a comedy club - I wanted to do it, so I gave it a try and that was it. I found my office. "
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Comedy
Simple
Laugh
" Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't. "
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Year
Round
Sensible
" Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house. "
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Talking
Person
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" Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20. "
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" America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in. "
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Kind
Culture
" There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens. "
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Love
" I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart. "
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" Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It reminds me of some tragic aunt clapping her hands and bouncing into a room and announcing we should all play games... and if we don't we are all a rotten spoilsport. "
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