Ellie Kemper Quotes
I love running. I've been running ever since middle school. In terms of clearing your head and restarting everything, I love running.
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I believed I was invincible.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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I'm not a control freak.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.
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If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
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In grammar school I read 'Act One' by Moss Hart, and being a playwright struck me as the most magical and romantic career anyone could have... But I never did write a play.
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I listen to everything while I train. From old school reggae, to classical stuff like Bach, to hip-hop, to rock and roll.
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I love running. I've been running ever since middle school. In terms of clearing your head and restarting everything, I love running.
