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Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live. -- Amy Poehler
But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin. -- Jerry Garcia
Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love. -- Robert Browning
My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker. -- Spike Lee
You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins. -- David Coverdale
We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins. -- Robin Williams
People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin) -- Nancy Werlin
Win, lose or draw, you're all my cousins and I love you. -- Chill Wills
My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities. -- Sargent Shriver
Cousin, the days of gods and heroes are over." "Not to me. Not to them. -- Steven Pressfield
Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping. -- Owain Glyndwr
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I've got cousins galore, Mexicans just spread all their seeds and the women just pop them out -- Jessica Alba
My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock. -- Rodney Dangerfield
I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. -- Charles Farrar Browne
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. -- H. L. Mencken
I always call my cousin because we're so close. We're almost like sisters, and we're also close because our mom's are sisters. -- Britney Spears
My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago. -- Ziggy Marley
Some primal termite knocked on wood. And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today. -- Ogden Nash
Did you have a good journey from Derbyshire?" he asked"How was Cuthbert?""Cousin Cuthbert lives in Kent," she replied calmly"I was in Somerset with the Brothertons. -- Miranda Neville
I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered "Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live. -- Alice Hoffman
A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Yes, but I - you know, it's been such a long time, I'm sure that I've got cousins and uncles that I've never met before, you know, that I've left behind. -- Rafael Palmeiro
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Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men. -- Alicia Machado
Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world. -- Kate Douglas Wiggin
I was eight when he left office. Like, he had an awesome house, you know, and my cousins and I had awesome trips to Camp David and Washington. It was just all like a good time for me. -- Lauren Bush
No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him. -- John Irving
That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time. -- Dwayne Johnson
When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on. -- Doris Roberts
Anyone in this world can have the power of life and death over someone else. It's horrible, but true. All you need to do is take it. And once you have -- there is no going back. (The Killer's Cousin) -- Nancy Werlin
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. -- William Ralph Inge
I had heard before that there were rumors I was gay. It's funny. My cousin gets his hair cut at this place, and one of the guys there told him that Scott Wolf was gay. He didn't realize that he was my cousin. -- Scott Wolf
My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles. -- Mike Krzyzewski
Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence. -- Christopher Lee
I am really close to my family. My cousin is my best friend! -- Daniella Monet
My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I. -- Charles V
I actually didn't have a quincenera, but I did get to take part in one for my cousin. I've just never really been into parties. -- Cierra Ramirez
My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me. -- Orlando Bloom
I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year. -- Beverly Cleary
In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself. -- Khaled Hosseini
I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic. -- Idris Elba
Neon signs don't consume much power, but they look like they do. A cousin of fluorescent lighting, neon is actually quite energy efficient. A neon tube glows coolly when high-voltage, low-amperage electrical power excites the gas within it. -- Virginia Postrel
My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk. -- Lindsay Fox
I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin. -- Fergie
When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side, with a book, with a scheme or a project or an enterprise. -- Martin Amis
As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement. -- Rand Paul
My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious. -- Leonard Nimoy
My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced. -- Jennifer Lawrence
You don't wanna walk around and say, 'I'm somebody's niece, I'm somebody's cousin, I'm somebody's daughter. Who are you?' And I think that's always the challenge when you grow up in a well-known family, is ultimately, you have to face yourself in the mirror and say, 'Who are you? What have you done?' -- Maria Shriver
I didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and called the office and told them to bring me a bunch more. Then I had my cousin's store deliver a bunch of smoked ham and turkeys. I mean, these people are hungry and living under a bridge. -- Joe Jamail
I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character. -- Adam McKay
I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with an explanation for why it's really a Photoshopped picture of Bin Laden asleep. Or his dead cousin Fred. Donald Trump apparently believes that Bin Laden is dead, so that ought to be enough for the Middle East. -- Gail Collins
My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building. -- Denis Leary
When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with which my cousin Brenda, a year and a half younger, accepted her mother's definition of her as someone who needed to go to bed at six-thirty and finish every bite of three vegetables, one of them yellow, with every meal. -- Joan Didion
Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not think I am an icon, my cousin does not think I am an icon.' I have a really lovely group of friends, and I just don't think about it. -- Kathleen Hanna
When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, 'Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!' And I'm like, 'Okay I don't know you, I have no idea who you are.' I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And I'll be like, 'Which of my family members are giving you this phone number?' -- Sherri Shepherd
When I was 10 years old, a cousin of mine took me on a tour of his medical school. And as a special treat, he took me to the pathology lab and took a real human brain out of the jar and placed it in my hands. And there it was, the seat of human consciousness, the powerhouse of the human body, sitting in my hands. -- Aditi Shankardass
Astrology is a cousin of racism. -- Penn Jillette
I'm in love with my second cousin. -- Bob Dylan
Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment. -- John Stott
Use the right word, not its second cousin. -- Mark Twain
Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, -- Birdman
I ought to tell you I'm probably your cousin. -- Henry James
Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot. -- R.L. LaFevers
Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard. -- Karen Karbo
Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend. -- Edward Norton
Hate and love be closer cousin than like and dislike. -- Marlon James
Exaggeration is the kissing cousin of both truth and lie. -- Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Fear not, dear cousin. In madness there is great power -- Pen Densham
I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death. -- Nas
Carl, Dennis and Brian are brothers, and Mike Love's a cousin. -- Bruce Johnston
Like I'm going to pass up an opportunity to smack your cousin. -- Rachel Vincent
My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell. -- Parker Posey
My little cousin Jimmy told me in jail he was a drag queen. -- Master P
You might be a redneck if your sophisticated show-biz cousin is a rodeo clown. -- Jeff Foxworthy
That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart. -- Eoin Colfer
I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once. -- Missy Elliot
I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once. -- Missy Elliot
A man cannot own a woman, cousin. He can only... He can only love her. -- Catherine Anderson
Amber Rose is NOT Charlie's [Rose] cousin. I just want to make sure people know. -- Andy Cohen
I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers. -- Adam Garcia
I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy. -- Taraji P. Henson
My cousin Simon Bor, the champion of Los Angeles, convinced me to concentrate on running. -- Martin Lel
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin. -- Joseph Brodsky
Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping. -- Owain Glyndwr
He's just, your cousin, ay, abhorrently, He'd wash his hands in blood, to keep them clean. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy. -- Robert Reed
My cousin is gay, in school while other kids were dissecting frog, he was opening flies. -- Rodney Dangerfield
I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him. -- J. K. Rowling
Courage to be who you are is the cousin of loving the Divine, yourself and others. -- Robert V. Taylor
My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I. -- Charles V
Everybody! This is my cousin right here, and he just dethroned God's gift to Women - Griffin -- S.C. Stephens
Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin' the dollar finds nothin' but stress. -- Mac Miller
Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know? -- CeeLo Green
Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton. -- Thomas Traherne
Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune. -- Owain Glyndwr
Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune. -- Owain Glyndwr
Expecting anybody else?" Shane asked Eve. "Your distant cousin Jack the Ripper dropping by too?" "Screw you, Collins. -- Rachel Caine
My little cousin tells me I look like Magneto so I guess that's who I should probably play. -- Robert Pattinson
My cousin is gay, I always tell him that in our family tree, he's in the fruit section. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Never we sleep, a thug doesn't rest, Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death. -- Big Pun
My parents went to Ohio to see a very distant cousin get buried or married. I don't remember which. -- Stephen Chbosky
My cousin is an agoraphobic homosexual, which makes it kind of hard for him to come out of the closet. -- Bill Kelly
He was my distant cousin. Not only was he 50 miles away and 50 years away, but he was just very aloof. -- Jarod Kintz
my cousin Shirley, who never complains, screamed and screamed when she was having her baby. True, this was just during conception. -- Joan Rivers
Queen Victoria, one of our more frumpy Queen's. They're all frumpy aren't they? Because it's a bad idea when cousin's marry. -- Eddie Izzard
We're sometimes treated like the stupid cousin, so I'm always drawn to characters that make you feel good about being Welsh. -- Matthew Rhys
Many states have laws against cousin marriage, which I think are ridiculous - people should be allowed to make that choice. -- Amber Heard
I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself. -- Anthony Jeselnik
Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto. -- Jose Mourinho
They say sleep is the cousin of death, guess we related... Cause I'm the most slept on, and the most hated. -- Jayceon Terrell Taylor
My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee - the natural enemy of a tightrope walker. -- Dan Rather
Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other. -- Ivy Compton-Burnett
I was in the land of fakes and frauds and phonies-I felt like saying "Howdy cousin," to everybody who walked by. -- Gary Reilly
In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields. -- Mason Cooley
I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions. -- Lee Child
My cousin, Rip Torn, persuaded me not to change my name. You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success. -- Sissy Spacek
You might be a redneck if you stand under the mistletoe at Christmas and wait for Granny and cousin Sue-Ellen to walk by. -- Jeff Foxworthy
While I respect my cousin Annette Sykes commitment in engaging in the political process, I do not endorse or support any political party. -- Cliff Curtis

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