Kristen Schaal Quotes
I probably shouldn't say this about all animals, but at least the farm animals that I've hung out with, and even when I go to the zoo usually, they're like a blank slate. I guess that's why I like them. They're puppets, and you can imagine them being anything you want.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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My career is an open book, but my life is not.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
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I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
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I don't want you looking at the light fixture; I want you looking at where light goes. But more than that, I'm interested in the effect of light upon you and your perceptions.
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While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.
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For modern fashion designers, bones are beautiful. I don't know why, but so many people are obsessed with the skeletal look.
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I probably shouldn't say this about all animals, but at least the farm animals that I've hung out with, and even when I go to the zoo usually, they're like a blank slate. I guess that's why I like them. They're puppets, and you can imagine them being anything you want.
