Quotes by Paul F. Tompkins

Paul F. Tompkins

Everyone is always asking me about clothes.

Asking

Clothes

How has podcasting changed things? A lot of people ask me if I feel I should be more famous.

People

Podcasting

Should

I came from a big family, with not enough attention. It’s classic. I wasn’t the baby, but was second to last. It’s absolutely the same story that most people have in this [film] business, they’re the middle children. I’ve encountered some people, and it’s weird to me, that they were the youngest in their family. I don’t understand how that works, they got the attention.

Baby

Children

People

I didn’t want to have to call a cab if I went to the supermarket. So I eventually got a bike, just a beach cruiser, and I rode that thing all over town. I rode it everywhere. I rode it in the rain, I rode it as much as I possibly could. Anytime I could afford the independence of the bike, I used the bike.

Beach

Independence

Rain

I do think I’m terrific at giving advice. Although in our hearts we usually know what we should do. It’s rare that you get in a situation in life where you don’t know how to proceed. You know the thing you should do, but don’t want to.

Heart

Situations In Life

Thinking

I famously stole tons of VHS tapes from a video store I worked in. It was detailed in my special, Laboring Under Delusions. I worked at Tower Video and stole a bunch of videotapes from them, and then got caught and had to return the videotapes. It was a mortifying experience.

Special

Tape

Towers

I haven’t seen comedy as popular as it is now since when I started, in the late 1980s boom. It feels like that again, in that it’s everywhere, and it’s great to see.

Comedy

Feels

Late

I like being around people who are good conversationalists, when there’s a give and take, and you are heightening an idea, exploring it together, that is my favorite thing in the world.

Giving

Ideas

People

I like being around people who are good conversationalists.

Good Conversation

People

I like working in television a lot. It’s nice to have a place to go every day and a group of people to hang out with and work alongside with a common goal. But I think I’ll always love stand-up more, because there’s so much to discover. But you cannot beat television money with a stick. Not with a stick.

Nice

People

Thinking

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Adventurous

Ambition

Arabia

Asking

Baby

Beach

Bike

Book

Car

Cat

Cheer

Children

Clothes

Clubs

Coffee

College

Comedy

Comic

Different

Do The Best

Doing What You Want

Downtown

Emotional

Feelings

Feels

Finished

Firsts

Fun

Giving

Good Conversation

Heart

Ideas

Independence

Insane

Intimacy

Jobs

Kids

Kind

Late

Laughing

Like You

Long

Max

Meat

Mind

Moving

Nice

Party

People

Phases

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Quotes by Paul F. Tompkins

Paul F. Tompkins

Everyone is always asking me about clothes.

How has podcasting changed things? A lot of people ask me if I feel I should be more famous.

I do think I’m terrific at giving advice. Although in our hearts we usually know what we should do. It’s rare that you get in a situation in life where you don’t know how to proceed. You know the thing you should do, but don’t want to.

I famously stole tons of VHS tapes from a video store I worked in. It was detailed in my special, Laboring Under Delusions. I worked at Tower Video and stole a bunch of videotapes from them, and then got caught and had to return the videotapes. It was a mortifying experience.

I haven’t seen comedy as popular as it is now since when I started, in the late 1980s boom. It feels like that again, in that it’s everywhere, and it’s great to see.

I like being around people who are good conversationalists, when there’s a give and take, and you are heightening an idea, exploring it together, that is my favorite thing in the world.

I like being around people who are good conversationalists.

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