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Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

- Louis C. K.

Pay Attention, Some, Going, Entertainers

There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.

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Show, TV, TV Show, Reviews

People don't talk to me on airplanes.

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Me, People, Talk, Airplane

There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.'

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Woman, My Life, Big, Great Thing

If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.

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Punches, TV, Your, Punched

I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.

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More, Always, European, Offbeat

I like all ladies of all different ages.

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Like, Different Ages, Ages, Ladies

I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.

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Always, Needs, Resource, Pools

My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes.

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Regret, Careful, About, Ex-Wife

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

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Twisted, Quickly, Created, Perception

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

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Work, Apply, Learned, Energy

I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?'

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Think, I Think, Oh My God, Surprisingly

Sometimes I try to take a nap before shows. That clears my head.

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Head, Shows, Take, Clears

My kids are really easy. I often worry that they're too easy to deal with. They're really nice people.

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Worry, Deal, Often, Nice People

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

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Talk, Things, About, Positive Thing

Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue.

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Conservative, Some, Very, Category

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

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Stories, Had, Great Stories, Tones

I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward.

- Louis C. K.

Growing Up, Growing, Awkward, Nerd

When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'

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Dumb, Younger, Like, Divorced

When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'

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Thought, Goes, Act, Divorced

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

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Memory, Small, Chips, Manage

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

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Like, Very, Feels, Chore

Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.

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Stage, Shape, Having, Wind

I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.

- Louis C. K.

Hope, I Wish, Like, JFK

Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides.

- Louis C. K.

Everyone, Everyone Else, Envelope

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

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Good, Feel, Tell, Hey

I do actually use a boxing trainer when I train for stand-up.

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Trainer, Use, Actually, Train

I could never sit down and write jokes.

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Down, Never, Could, Jokes

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

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Love, Parent, Very, Feelings

There's no such thing as a cheap laugh.

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Cheap, Thing, Laugh

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