Fred Willard Quotes
There's different kinds of improv. There's Second City improv where you try to slowly build a nice sketch. There's stuff you do in college coffee houses where you just go joke, joke, joke. Bring another funny character with a funny hat on his head. Christopher Guest is more the line of trying to get a story out.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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If people hate me they hate me.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
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For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.
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Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.
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My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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My dream of dreams is to write Broadway musicals. All of this Twitter and TV writing is just a day job.
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There's different kinds of improv. There's Second City improv where you try to slowly build a nice sketch. There's stuff you do in college coffee houses where you just go joke, joke, joke. Bring another funny character with a funny hat on his head. Christopher Guest is more the line of trying to get a story out.
