Cities like New York have already followed San Francisco and have started similar organizations like sfCiti; New York has TECH NYC.
Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week.
Oasis were massive for me, because of the attitude and what they represented and how outspoken they were. It felt like they were exactly like me.
I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
Room service is a hard thing to pay for. That's, like, oatmeal for $12? That makes me mad.
It was definitely during the Obama administration that talking about racism, or calling it out, suddenly seemed taboo. It seemed like talking about race was somehow summoning the evil of racism.
It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.
Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying.
Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.
I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me.
The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.
Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
The difference between what people perceive and what's reality is that, like, I'm not actually shy. I'm just observant. I care a lot.
I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.
Don't get me wrong, I'm under no illusions, I've got a very old-school, mainstream leaning to the way I present my comedy because I actually like jokes and don't just do observational stuff.
In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.
I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it.
I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat.
I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour.
