- Aug 2023
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Jerry Seinfeld used a calendar and crossed off days on which he wrote as a productivity tool. After marking off a few days with "x"s his goal was to not break the chain of work.
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- May 2022
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seemed surprised that I’ve kept all these notes. I don’tunderstand why they think that. I don’t understand why I’vekept anything else. What could possibly be of more value?
Actor and comedian Jerry Seinfeld, arguably the most influential comedian of his generation, wrote in his book Is This Anything?:
Whenever I came up with a funny bit, whether it happened on a stage, in a conversation or working it out on my preferred canvas, the big yellow legal pad, I kept it in one of those old- school accordion folders . . . A lot of people I’ve talked to
link to other comedian practices: This one is most similar to George Carlin perhaps, though not as zany. Also similar to Adam Sandler, though he uses spiral bound notebooks.
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- Aug 2017
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stream of Seinfeld royalties,
Wah?
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- Feb 2017
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nd besides, what about these linguistic conventions themselves? Are they perhaps prod-, ucts of knowledge, that is, of the sense of truth? Are designations congruent with things? Is Ian+ guage the adequate expression of all realities?
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Blair shifted the attention of educators "away from deliberative, forensic, and epideictic discourse and toward poetic discourse,"
Quintilian was "too focused with systematic rhetoric." One should practice the virtues. Rhetorical writers are not to be neglected. It's "polite" to know the ancients.
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