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I had a blind date with a dentist – and he told me to come back in six months.Joan Rivers
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People say it is not the key to happiness, but I have always figured if you have enough money you can have a key made.Joan Rivers
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I said, "Is there! " I told him there is a Mafia school where they teach them math – if Johnny has ten fingers and they cut off two, how many does he have left?Joan Rivers
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Somehow, some way, every person in the arts has to find an accommodation with disappointment and embarrassment. They are the pollen in the air we breathe.Joan Rivers
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It gathers emotionally inside you, in a strange way a by-product of struggle, of a willingness to do anything, try anything, expose yourself to anything – staying in motion because sooner or later those ripples will cause change.Joan Rivers
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Laughing made me feel safe. I was not going to be enveloped by the seediness that coated this world like dust.Joan Rivers
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When you begin to losing your audience, do not get loud; get quiet, make them find you and come back to you.Joan Rivers
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I am driven. Being driven is my energy source. It is my fun.… I believe that where there is action, there is movement, and those ripples will eventually produce something positive.Joan Rivers
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The revelation that personal truth can be the foundation of comedy, that outrageousness can be cleansing and healthy…Joan Rivers
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The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it.Joan Rivers
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Everything comes out of smoke and mist and nothingness, a mystical happening…Joan Rivers
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Liked" was the kiss of death. "Loved" or "hated" interested him. At least the performer had aroused emotion.Joan Rivers
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Maybe that is why in my comedy I try and puncture the hypocrisy all around us, why it is almost a crusade with me to strip life down to what really is true.Joan Rivers
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…but I think comedy is more aggressive than that. It is a medium for revenge. We can deflate and punish the pomposity and the rejection which hurt us. Comedy is power.Joan Rivers
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…you either do or do not have a comedy mind, whatever that is, maybe a heightened sense of the ridiculous and the absurdity of life… We are all crazy and crazed.Joan Rivers
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Even the world’s greatest actor cannot fake an erection.Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Leaders with high esteem are high performers.Israelmore Ayivor
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If both the performer and audience are on the same plane then it's not ART but SCIENCE, for ART is a personal expression that varies from one individual to another, while SCIENCE commands uniformity & certainty! What are YOU?Ramana Pemmaraju
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Strive hard to be among the top performers. To do this, create a standard. Go higher than this standard. Set another higher standard; surpass it and repeat the process.Israelmore Ayivor
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I like performing because it's direct contact with live people. I write a good deal of the time but that's introspective creation rather than interaction.Oliver
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One forgets that part of one's performance is one's history–or sometimes the lack of it. You're playing against what an audience knows, what they expect. This seems to be true of all performers; there's baggage that gets carried into the venue that we can't see.David Byrne
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I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better that way, he is deluding himself.Oliver
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Most people don’t understand performers are really sheltered and protected so much sometimes that they don’t get a chance to live their lives.Diana Ross