My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers meals to old folk around where we live. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, but I had a very happy childhood.
You wake up white, and you think about certain things every day. You wake up black, and you think about certain things. You wake up Chinese, and you think certain things - but those things aren't major. What's major is that you are good at your craft...
No matter how I feel, I get up, dress up, and show up for life. When I do, the day always serves up more than I could have hoped for. Each day truly is a slice of heaven. Some days the slices are just smaller than others.
There were many influences on me while growing up. In the late Seventies and early Eighties when I was growing up in Hyderabad, it was a bit more laid-back, and that gave you time to think about things differently without perhaps being caught up in t...
Does that count as an argument? Can we kiss and make up now?” "It was only half an argument.” “Fine. Then, you kiss and I’ll make up.” I laughed until he effectively shut me up with his lips.
Even though I am very tied to and close to my heritage, I learned Spanish in college; I didn't grow up with it. Growing up in South Texas is different from Miami or L.A. where it is a necessity to speak Spanish.
I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.
Ariadne: [wakes up after being stabbed by Mal in a dream] Why... why wouldn't I wake up? Arthur: 'Cause there was still some time on the clock and you can't wake up from within a dream unless you die.
[first lines] Seal Instructor: [pulling exhausted trainee from the water] Six times three? Seal Trainee: [groans] Seal Instructor: Hurry up, Hurry up, Hurry up... Hurry up. Seal Trainee: Eighteen. Seal Instructor: Ooh!
You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.' And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.
If today is the last day of your life, the one thing you want to say is that you showed up for life. You showed up for your dreams. You showed up for the people who mattered to you. And above all, you showed up for yourself.
One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they d...
I'll back up anything my dad says.
The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.
The difference between Success and failure is not giving up.
I was grown up long before the grown ups were the grown ups.
My girlfriend and I just had make-up sex. We both wore make-up.
Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.
Sometimes life will give you ups and downs, but it's up to you to take them as they come.
For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.
I actually didn't grow up in New York. I grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts.