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" When I am in a hotel, and I turn off the lights and the TV, I just freak out. I turn the TV back on and don't get any sleep. "
Louis C. K.
Hotel
Back
Sleep
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" Life is full of horrible mistakes. "
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" It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive. "
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" I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat. "
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" You can't direct without a good crew. "
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" I don't think it makes any sense to try to get anyone to not talk. "
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" There's no such thing as a cheap laugh. "
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" I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from. "
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" Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides. "
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" There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say. "
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" A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody. "
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" The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness. "
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" I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do. "
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" When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes. "
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