Kristen Schaal Quotes

In high school, I was doing a skit for forensics and people started laughing, more than I was prepared to deal with. It was a surprise.

Kristen Schaal

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• I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.

  

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• When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

  

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• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

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• The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

  

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• You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

  

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• I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!

  

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• Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.

  

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• This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.

  

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• The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.

  

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• Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

  

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• 'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.

  

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• I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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• I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

  

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• British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.

  

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• I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.

  

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• If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.

  

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• For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

  

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• Because of television, sports columnists have become personalities. I went to a party [during Super Bowl week] and there must have been 500 people who wanted to talk to me because they saw me on TV. I've become sort of the Soupy Sales character on TV, and people do not really know me as a writer.

  

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• In high school, I was doing a skit for forensics and people started laughing, more than I was prepared to deal with. It was a surprise.

  

  Kristen Schaal
  • People
  • School
  • High