Kristen Wiig Quotes
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.
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You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you.
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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
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I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
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If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.
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I'm a friend of the children. No one should see them as pitiable subjects. People often relate childish behaviour to stupidity or foolishness. This needs to change. I want to level the playing field where I can learn from children. I can learn transparency from children. They're innocent and straightforward.
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At five minutes to eleven on the morning named he was at the station, a false beard and spectacles shielding his identity from the public eye. If you had asked him he would have said that he was a Scotch business man. As a matter of fact, he looked far more like a motor-car coming through a haystack.
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Everything on Saturday morning cartoons moves alike-that's one of the reasons it's not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts the same way, their feet move the same way, and everybody runs the same way. It doesn't matter whether it's an alligator or a man or a baby or anything, they all move the same.
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I rebel - therefore we exist.
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I made a choice that I was not going to be a pretentious writer.
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if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.
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The young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.
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I drove 3,500 miles this summer on our family holiday, we drove across 10 countries. I have driven across the United States four times. I love cars, I love being in cars, I think so do most people. I want to help and support those people who have that same kind of enthusiasm for driving that I have.
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Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.
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I've been doing som jogging at home recently and every time I try the distance I end up beating his time with like three or four seconds.
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I don't know if you can articulate an instinct.