Bill Hader Quotes
One of the reasons I started working at 'South Park,' actually, was that I wanted to learn how to structure things and how to tell a story.
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The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
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Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
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I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.
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If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country.
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
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The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.
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The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.
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Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.
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If you put a much older woman in 'Doctor Who,' they can identify with it. I think it's quite an interesting concept, and if you remember things like 'Grimm's Fairytales,' the older woman is often the villainess, often the terrifying figure - why I do not know, but often she is. I think it's an idea to be exploited.
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It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'
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People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.
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I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.
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I write R-rated action dramas, and every year that goes by, that gets to be a smaller and smaller world you have to work in. You have to think of how to get the studio excited and sell them something.
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We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.
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Rules necessary for axioms. Not to demand in axioms any but things perfectly evident.
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As a kid, my pops did music, too. He was in a group called Lakeside back in the day.
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I just try to see what happens when you put your feet on the accelerator.
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One of the reasons I started working at 'South Park,' actually, was that I wanted to learn how to structure things and how to tell a story.
