Kristen Schaal Quotes
My parents are pretty religious, devout, but did they force it on me? No, I don't think so. I still think of myself as a Lutheran, just one who doesn't go to church.
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I write in a small office at home.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.
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I designed and developed an unbelievable number of applications early in my life.
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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
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As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
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Reality is everywhere, and to find It 'you' must first disappear.
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My parents are pretty religious, devout, but did they force it on me? No, I don't think so. I still think of myself as a Lutheran, just one who doesn't go to church.
