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I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.

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Marc Maron
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: September 27
Actor
Comedian
Podcaster
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Producer
Jersey City
New Jersey
Marcus David Maron
Provocative
Sensitive
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Funny
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That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away.
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Hopefully standup will become special again.
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Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise'.
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Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.
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Once I learned how to talk, personally, by myself to any number of people, which means do radio without talking to anyone in particular on the air - I just found that my brain became very free to engage in a sort of stream-of-consciousness style of doing what I do.
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Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.
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I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.
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I'm proud to be part of a generation where reading is a 'look.'
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I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens.
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The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.
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I think most other comics are like, 'I'm going to do my fkin' act and that'll be that.' With me, it's like, 'What if I forget my jokes? What if I can't pull it together? This is going to be a fking disaster!'
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As I became very conscious and more aware of things I got very into the beatniks and that kind of stuff. They were very important to me for a few years.
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I don't make a list of questions. Ever. I think a lot of my interviews are driven by my need to feel connection.
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Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on.
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Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.
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Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.
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We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.
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Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.
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It always astounds me that over the course of my career, and having lived in four comedy cities - New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles - there's very few people I haven't run into.
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What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around or walking around with notebooks, writing things down. Usually they're fairly sensitive. Usually they're very bright. And that makes them poets.
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