Mary Lynn Rajskub Quotes
The really cool challenge of '24' was learning on camera how to be a dramatic actress. The biggest difficulty was the industry side of things. I was very lucky that I had Joel Surnow, one of the creators of '24,' in my corner. Early on, the Fox executives couldn't believe that I was on the show.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
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School districts around the country, and the taxpayers that support them, have a moral right to the information the NFL might have concerning the medical aspects of the game, and to assess the risks to the students in their charge. Colleges have a moral right to that information for the same reasons.
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The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.
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The really cool challenge of '24' was learning on camera how to be a dramatic actress. The biggest difficulty was the industry side of things. I was very lucky that I had Joel Surnow, one of the creators of '24,' in my corner. Early on, the Fox executives couldn't believe that I was on the show.
