Mary Docter Quotes
I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash.
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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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Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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Nashville, I think, for me, personally, would be where I want to live and work. L.A. is a whole other world and has a whole other vibe to it, so I would like to come out here for work for a couple of months, but L.A. is just not really my scene, per se.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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I'm not saying 'I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.' We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature.
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People are forever finding something wrong with you.
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I've never thought about it before, but I suppose bad people might need someone to pray to, too.
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You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it.
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But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.
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I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash.
