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" I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious! "
Steven Wright
People
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" When I die, I'm gonna leave my body to science fiction. "
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" Hermits have no peer pressure. "
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" I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me - to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That's normally how I perform. That's how I am. "
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" It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature. "
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" I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head. "
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" It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules. "
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" I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there. "
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" On the other hand, you have different fingers. "
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" When I was 16... I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because... they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them. "
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" I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out. "
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" My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant. "
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" I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it. "
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" Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I’ve forgotten this before. "
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" When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.' "
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" I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me. "
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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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" How young can you die of old age? "
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" I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on 'The Tonight Show.' There's truly nothing like it; it's intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual. "
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" Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.' "
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" I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.' "
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" My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn't know what I'm talking about. I know if I wasn't her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going. "
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