Ellie Kemper Quotes

I love, love, love, love, love, love Naeem Khan. Every dress he makes looks like it belongs in a museum. You put it on, and you feel like royalty.

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• My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Learning

• I'll sleep when I'm dead.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Death
  • Sleep
  • Dead

• One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Progress
  • Lies
  • Tell

• Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Music
  • Down
  • Go

• You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • You
  • Personality
  • Take

• My family supported me before any of this crazy notion of moving out to Hollywood and staking my claim. That support has never waned.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Family
  • Support
  • Crazy

• Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Men
  • Lose
  • Direction

• The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.

  

  Lactantius
  • Mind
  • Together
  • Spirit

• You do not quite get what I mean. Herr Frankenstein was interested only in human life. First to destroy it, then recreate it. There you have his mad dream.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Mad

• After the gold was removed from my body I felt lighter, more free. They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.

  

  Amy Tan
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Gold

• Don't knock th' weather. Nine-tenths o' th' people couldn' start a conversation if it didn' change once in a while.

  

  Kin Hubbard
  • People

• If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Desire

• on the question 'Why selecting certain subjects over others': I do not exactly know, unless it is that I believe them his chosen subjects to be the best mediums for a synthesis of my inner experience.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Experience

• For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.

  

  Keir Dullea
  • Time
  • Moving

• The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I'm not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?

  

  Penelope Keith
  • Life
  • Character
  • Job

• Cursing is heavily used in the Irish language. It's not a stretch for me, and I have no qualms about it. It doesn't fall far from the real me.

  

  Paula Malcomson
  • Real
  • Fall
  • Irish

• Through love, we come close to the hearts of our brothers - at the beginning, throughout the course of, and right up to the end of our lives.

  

  Dominique Pire
  • Up
  • Beginning

• I really enjoy listening to players on the cusp of swing into bebop like Charlie Shavers, Clifford Brown and Clark Terry. They balance immense facility on their instrument with rhythm, melody, and more complex harmonies of the time.

  

  Bria Skonberg
  • Time
  • Listening
  • Balance

• Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

  

  Kenny Loggins
  • Real
  • Free
  • Past

• I feel like I found a sound that is unique to country music, in my own lane.

  

  Chris Lane
  • Music
  • Country
  • Unique

• I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • People
  • Time

• I view Bitcoin as the more democratic version of money and value transfer because no one controls it... I expect the Internet to be around longer than any nation-state, so a nation-state-backed currency is actually less safe than an Internet currency in my mind.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Value

• Innovating something that is familiar. That's the general approach, and that's what I want to do with the melody as well. It should ring true - you should like every melody sequence without knowing what's happening next.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • True

• I love, love, love, love, love, love Naeem Khan. Every dress he makes looks like it belongs in a museum. You put it on, and you feel like royalty.

  

  Ellie Kemper