Kristen Wiig Quotes
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We're so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We're all so different.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.
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It's amazing what a bit of soot and shaving can do for muscle definition, honestly.
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Any actress will tell you - it's really hard. If you're not an A-list Hollywood movie star, if you're in the middle, there are people who assume you wouldn't do certain things without even asking you, when actually you probably would. And there are people who always think you are busy doing something else.
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People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.
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And so the arbitrary union of three incommensurate, mutually disconnected concepts became the basis of a bewildering theory... by which one of the lowest renderings of art, art for mere pleasure - against which all of the master teachers warned - was idealized as the ultimate in art.
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People are always so surprised when I want to do dramatic stuff.
