Stuff Quotes - Page 71

I really bridled when Parks And Rec became popular and woodworking publications wanted me to do stuff with them.

My goal was to do something that incorporated all the stuff I do and have it feel like something new, like it was hopefully taking the stand-up special paradigm and turning it on its head.

You get to have some bigger comedic moments with some very real dramatic stuff. All that in one makes for a fulfilling artistic job.

I like to think that the stuff I do is oftentimes collaborative, so to have other people in it felt natural.

I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.

When you don't have those types of things, fashion and all that stuff, it helps you find yourself because you don't have those things to rely on.

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

And there's so much extra material. I mean, I've certainly read as you asked about do I read reviews and stuff, like people are like none of the jokes in the trailers are like in the movie. And it's like and we have whole sequences and scenes that weren't in the movie.

I'm pretty brutal about getting rid of stuff. There wasn't anything where I was like, "Oh, I miss that," because usually it's for a good reason.

I always have lots of zany ideas for promotional stuff as publication nears.

I've always been doing stuff, being creative. But I got to the point where I starting to feel this longing, craving, itchy feeling - which was the first sign that it was time. I've made a few attempts to make other solo records, but when I've looked back at the body of work I've always felt like I was never quite there.

I think a lot of the inspirations for me are very instinctual and subconscious. I don't over intellectualize stuff much. It's a very instinctual thing.

I love technology. I buy all of the stuff when they come out first.

I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.

You can't just boss bacteria around like that," said the younger Mrs. Hempstock. "They don't like it." "Stuff and silliness," said the old lady. "You leave wigglers alone and they'll be carrying on like anything. Show them who's boss and they can't do enough for you. You've tasted my cheese.

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here.

The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.

There is enough to go around. Lack of the will to share is the problem, not lack of the stuff to share.

Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing other things, writing stuff will be swirling around in my head, and sometimes I'll see a new way into the material.

My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders.' I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.

All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.

A lot of times you'll do a movie, and you'll be working with adults with families and kids and stuff. There's a level - you guys aren't going to be hanging out every second, you know?