#rap

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#connecting #dead #even #give #kind

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#early #i #strapped #were #written

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction? ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#clearer #fiction #saying #says #scrap

I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#barrel #bottom #felt #get #i

My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me. ↗

— Juan Cole

#apparent #exit #exit strategy #expertise #extrapolate

I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy! ↗

— Chris Colfer

#cute #died #get #going #grandfather

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years. ↗

— Joan Collins

#ago #autobiography #book #every #first

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#autograph #back #being #cigarette #fame

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#above #artist #dark #day #falls

I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people. ↗

— Dane Cook

#being #cheek #close #clubs #comedian