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" Don't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night. "
Steven Wright
Hand
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" There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can't get it anywhere else. And I've been doing it since I was 23, so it's part of my being - it's part of my fabric as a person. "
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" If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey? "
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" I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast. "
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" What a nice night for an evening. "
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" All those who believe in psychokinesis - raise my hand. "
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" I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy. "
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" When I die, I'm gonna leave my body to science fiction. "
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" Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big deal... 'Oh, no, here comes the bus. Where am I gonna sit on the bus?' "
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" I don't feel that I'm explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I'm not trying to be a mirror, showing them what's really going on the world. All I'm trying to do is think of stuff that's funny, just like when I'm kidding around with my friends. "
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" I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. "
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