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It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself.

I'm trying my best to sound like me rather than trying my best to write hits or praying to God that people respond. I've arrived in a very healthy place and it feels great!

I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.

I tell people that I'm not necessarily any good, it's just that there is nobody like me. I just promise you will not be bored.

I like it when shows end intentionally, and Review, especially, has such a long form narrative that it feels like you need to give it a thoughtfully constructed finale.

If you try to act, you're going to look like you're acting. So don't act.

To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.

I feel like something magical is going to happen, and I feel like all the stars have finally lined up perfectly for Angie Stone.

I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options.

Then I show up steady ready and proud and I find I've forgotten how to talk out loud. Isn't it just like you to bring me to my knees?

If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.

You're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this.

You ever have that feeling? Like you’ve known someone your whole life but you don’t know them at all.

Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.

One of the surprises of being a grown-up is embracing the fact that you see your friends when you are both available. It's not like you hang out all the time.... It's just the reality.

It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.

Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.

I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off all the excess around the hole and get it back in, like you're spackling.

Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same way in which I love him.

‎There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby.

I like you; your eyes are full of language." [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]

You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.

You don't need to like your protagonists.

I think it's important if you're going to write a cookbook, it should sound like you talking - it should be things you actually believe, otherwise I'm not interested.

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

What do I care if someone doesn't like me. If I like someone other people hate, it makes me feel special. I think my fans feel that way.

Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.

It's very hard to understand when you're not out there but voting somebody off on Survivor almost feels like you're killing them.

So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.

It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?

You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.

About every four years, someone says to me, "I've got a friend who looks exactly like you." What can you say to this?

I need fiction like you need to eat or exercise.

One of the reasons some people get so angry with me is because I have the space now that a lot of others who think like me don't.

Sometimes we feel like life is like theater, really.

I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy.

I guess no matter what your family is like, you're not surprised.

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.

If falling in love is like taking off or flying, then love is like landing.

Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.

You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me.

With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it. The way I put that forward unequivocally ended up not being accurate.

If you like your existing plan you get to keep it

He [Barack Obama] talked about a crisises and he was blaming the Republicans on this crisises. It's like me blaming my wife for my drinking. I don't se how this is the Republicans fault.

As you go on you realize "Okay I know how to get laughs but am I saying things I want to say? Am I writing jokes that I like?" You get to a point that is that so you move on.

It's emotional for every champion who decides to step down, it's a tough decision. It's probably easier for some, like me. But I'm just going to try to take it in stride. It's part of life.

I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little more than that to show for your efforts.

Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.