Ellie Kemper Quotes
I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
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My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all the big agencies.
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Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.
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I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.
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As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.
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They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
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My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
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If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.
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I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.
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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.
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My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.
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I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.
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I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.
