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  • Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully.

    Writing   Dark   Mind  
    Ted Solotaroff (2008). “The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007”
  • One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.

    "St Vincent: soundtrack of my life". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.
  • Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

    Life   Lines   Actresses  
    Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.131, Simon and Schuster
  • It's a real challenge to complete a story arc and end up with a cool punchline in 120 characters.

  • Donald Trump was seen for quite a long time as a punchline, the jokes about the excesses and the failures of the 1980s. And he had become, you know, a human shingle and a punchline.

    Long   Excess   Trump  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.

    Use   Weight   Comic  
    "Chatological Humor: The Big Fat Debate, Part 2". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2009.
  • I still think that, hopefully, you're not ahead of the jokes, and I think that has value. There is a punchline and it's pointed - and, again, whether you think it's funny or not, that's subjective.

    "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.
  • One of the challenges with series TV is not to give everyone all the punchlines, all the gags and all the fun stuff at the top. Everyone is so anxious, for very good reasons, to hit the ground running, but I've been on the other end of that.

    Running   Fun   Giving  
    Source: collider.com
  • I love fishing. It's transcendental meditation with a punchline.

    Rivers   Lakes   Sea  
  • Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.

    People   Mind   Trying  
    Interview With Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.
  • As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.

  • You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic cartoon, there's always a punchline or a joke at the end. My drawings don't depend on that so much.

    Drawing   Cartoon   Want  
    Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.
  • Musically, I want to graduate and become one of the greatest. You can't do that just spitting punchlines. I respect those people who say they love that old style, but it would be greedy of them to want me to stay that same person.

    People   Style   Want  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.

  • I use those expectations as a color on my palette, a certain temperature in the room. You can use those expectations for the great punchline, but also for a great painting, in society.

    Source: www.aaa.si.edu
  • Russell Brand has announced that he plans to write a series of children's books. First up: 'Horton Hears a Heroin Dealer.'

    Twitter post from Apr 09, 2014
  • Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

    Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. February 25, 2009.
  • Be prepared to cut your little extra lines that come after a big punchline and move on to the next joke or routine to give your set more punch and crispness. You can keep them in your set, but if the audience applauds your big line, don't do your tag when it dies down, just move on.

    Moving   Cutting   Giving  
    Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”
  • My music started out as a complete joke, so really all I was doing was going for witty punchlines to make all of my buddies laugh.

  • Are you having problems hearing? If so, those around you already know it. Hearing loss is no laughing matter, so don't be a punchline.

    Loss   Laughing   Matter  
  • I don't sit down to write a song; they just come to me from something that somebody says, or something in the news. The punchline comes to me, and I go over it in my head and get the song form. I hadn't been doing that a lot.

    Song   Writing   News  
    Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. February 04, 2010.
  • The joke is, we all have the same punchline.

    Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.138, W. W. Norton & Company
  • It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

    Goal   Balls   Next  
  • On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible.

    Real   Trying   Updates  
    Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.
  • I tried to make the punchline as close to the setup as I could. And I thought that was the perfect thing. If I could make the setup and the punchline identical to each other, I would create a different kind of joke.

    Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. April 12, 2011.
  • On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did."

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."

  • Well, the coffeehouse audiences never know what they're going to get, and all the comics are different, as opposed to when you go to a club, and they're pretty much all telling jokes with set-ups and punchlines. Coffeehouse audiences are the most forgiving: They really listen, which is the best part.

    Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. February 11, 1998.
  • I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate television with any gay character or lesbian character or transgender character, I think that's a really great thing. We're kind of getting past the fact that they're the punchline or that they're the novelty.

    Cheer   Character   Gay  
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