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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
Sensitive
Rise
Funny
Thought
Always
People
Provocative

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There's nothing more horrifying than the possibility or the idea that you will just fade away into obscurity.
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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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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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It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.
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The next evolutionary step is into the screen.
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I think sharing experience makes everything better. When people get talking about how they've overcome something or how they haven't, it's nourishing.
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It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.
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I live in Los Angeles, I know it exists. I know you're not supposed to taste air.
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Whether people know the evolution of the conversation or not, I don't know, but thematically, as a comedian, I stay in the same ballpark - around my issues and my philosophy of life.
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I seem to offend everybody. I just never got into the universe. I don't seem to have a tremendous amount of discipline or patience with having to follow a story that is really multi-leveled and science-fiction.
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Hopefully standup will become special again.
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I find that if I don't do interviews, I get a little squirrely. I think that when you engage with someone else, or when you engage in something you're passionate about, you're sort of out of your own head.
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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'm just looking for authentic engagement of some kind, and usually, after an hour or more, you get that. Some people talk at you. Some people just want to answer questions, but a lot of times, all of a sudden you drift away, and you don't remember you're on the mic, and you're in something real.
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You know when you make popcorn there are always those fluffy white kernels that are fun and good to eat but there are also always those burnt, black kernels that don’t pop. You know why they don’t pop? Because they have integrity.
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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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It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By we I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: Would someone please acknowledge me?
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We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.
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Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.
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