As a comedian, especially one that works as much as I do, there is a lot of sacrifice. People don't see that I'm away from my family 46 weeks out of the year. I miss all the birthdays and anniversaries and holidays.
Sooner or later we all discover that the big moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. You were born an original. Don't die a copy. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. So mine's a double and I'll see you all in hell suckers!
I don't roam around with a camera and never did. I took pictures in spurts, for my books, for some assignments or on special occasions. Like people who take out their cameras for Christmas and birthdays. Each time, like them, probably, I feel it’s the first time and as if I would have to relearn the moves. Luckily, it comes pretty fast, like riding a bike.
My cousin gave me a twin-neck electric guitar for one of my birthdays. It was amazing. Even though it was mine, I was never allowed to pick it up.
It was considered very bad form to wish authors on their birthdays 'many happy returns.
This is the normal way with birthdays, see? Amazingly enough, they arrive on the same day, every year.
Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.
I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.
I really don't care about birthdays. It's something where even as a kid, I never really felt comfortable when someone would sing to me.
Nobody can hide their birthdays anymore, so there's no point in lying.
Birthday Alarm was a very simple site based on being reminded of your friends' birthdays.
I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon too many abandoned for the mess they made.
The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.
I don't celebrate birthdays much, except for decade-wise. It's not a really big thing.
