#tart

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#clubs #college #comedy #enough #entertainer

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail. ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#daily #fringes #i #journalism #mail

Our privacy is starting to be invaded and we can't get anything done. I'm happy with the fundraising but upset we don't have time to talk and meet with people. ↗

— Terry Fox

#done #fundraising #get #happy #i

When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine. ↗

— David Friedman

#fine #hear #i #made #off

Something like Deckard Cain is great; it doesn't ruin your voice. But games that involve violence or battle or mutating and stuff like that really does take a toll on your voice. And I've even had to start to go to a voice guru kind of guy to do exercises to try to save and get back some of what I lost. ↗

— Michael Gough

#battle #cain #does #even #exercises

What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded? ↗

— George Grosz

#first #first world #first world war #hated #i

The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense. ↗

— Robin Hayes

#created #defense #department #develop #developed

I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#back #coming #feel #happy #i

However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#excuse #getting #getting started #however #never

I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know? ↗

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

#basically #come #conversation #entire #entire life