Bill Hader Quotes
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I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a 'beggar-thy-neighbor' solution, in which countries try to load the problem off on their neighbors.
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Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.
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If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
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For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
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I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.
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It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
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I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.
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We've been working our tail off and lead by that example.
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Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world.
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I love a great melody and wonderful lyrics that speak from the heart, and my music has that and speaks about it; but there's just something that was really raw and energetic about the early House music. It's hard to describe. It's like you had to go to these parties where the stuff was being played on these huge sound systems to really feel it.
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Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.
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I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.
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The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.
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I was born with no money. So when people talk about Bow Wow being rich his whole life, I don't know where they get that.
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Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
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To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.
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There's a fine line between artist and product. I don't think the industry purposely does it, but I think that's just the way they maneuver. You have to be careful that doesn't become your story, where you become a product, and your art is tarnished because you're just seen as a tool to make money.
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I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to agents. I ignored the frequent advice to 'shoot low and try for a low-level agent because they're the only ones that will take a flyer on a new author.' That sounded like bad advice to me.
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I'm very close to my sisters.
