Darren Criss Quotes
Hollywood is a strange, strange thing. I feel like I've been invited to a very exclusive ball and I'm just trying to make nice with everybody and hope that if they kick me out they'll at least give me a ride home.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I am who I am.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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One of my favorite comedies is 'Shaun of the Dead.'
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You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.
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There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
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I thought I would hate New York, but I love New York. I almost hate to say that being from Chicago.
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Hollywood is a strange, strange thing. I feel like I've been invited to a very exclusive ball and I'm just trying to make nice with everybody and hope that if they kick me out they'll at least give me a ride home.
