Ellie Kemper Quotes
New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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I’m sure they’ll come up with all kinds of rationalizations, if the human precedent is anything to go by.
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New York publishing is about, 'What's the next Harry Potter? What's the next Twilight?' When I've approached people, I've asked, 'What is the book you've been dying to do, but New York won't do?' I want the books that they think won't sell - because I think they will.
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When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.
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The Muppets are always really positive when they come across adversity, and they always have the ability to see the good in people.
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Being a black person in America is exhausting.
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New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.
