#thou

I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but I thought: 'What the hell?' So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it. ↗

— Aziz Ansari

#before #friends #had #hadn #hanging

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience. ↗

— David Antin

#colored #develop #differently #experience #family

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton. ↗

— David Antin

#even #guess #i #inventor #james

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding. ↗

— David Antin

#everybody #everybody else #find #giving #giving up

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#because #behind #between #i #importance

The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#acquisition #although #been #century #chinese

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#always #beginning #comedy #end #everything

I got off on the fact that a guy would be so into me from the get-go without really knowing me. That's probably why I had so many bad relationships. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#fact #get-go #got #guy #had