Quotes About Observation

I'm interested in social commentary.

Comedians play off of social commentary.

I'm not a political person that much, but I've got common sense. I know when something's not right.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

Don't listen to what the Communists say, but look at what they do.

I started collecting crickets to study them. Now I expect they will be my companions for many years to come.

I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

Lena Dunham has a very compelling face.

You don't want to show anything, any behavior giveaways that your competition might see, right?

I love to study people and pick apart what makes a person or character who they are. I never want to get complacent in that.

I think I don't complain much about cars because I don't drive.

A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what you either have or you don't is this ability to see something that's complex and worth talking about.

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

I don't sit down in front of my computer screen and think, 'Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.' I just get ideas from the world around me.

I've never really been very interested in computers themselves. I don't watch them; I watch how people behave around them. That's becoming more difficult to do because everything is around them.

When I'm waiting to bat I try to watch the game and make sure I know what is going on so I am ready when I get out there but I spend a lot of time hydrating. It is very important for your performance and concentration. If it is cold I might have a coffee but mainly I am trying to stay really hydrated.

A lot of what we sing concerns the Brazilian way of life. The stuff I write is reality, everything I see. That's the stuff I want to sing about.

Don't confuse evidence with a conclusion.

Comedy comes from confusion.

In life I've learned one thing; if you want to be good you have to connect with the best people. So I got very close to the high-stakes players here. I get to watch them and play with them a little bit.

I'm always a people watcher. They always had us do that at the University of Connecticut where I went for my training. I got my B.F.A. in Acting there.

Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.

I've never really worked out this thought, and I don't know if I'm really conscious of it, but I can see there's an attraction about writing about a period that's over and isn't going to change colour while you look at it.

I relax by looking at things and reading about things. Even the simplest thing can reveal a great deal about the world around us. It relaxes me greatly to sit back with my feet up and look around my study at the everyday things that surround me.