Mary Lynn Rajskub Quotes
'24' is a pretty serious show - there isn't a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that, I do play around with the delivery. A lot of the humor comes from playing a character who is very furious and really up in her own brain and in a serious situation. That is humorous to me.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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If there's one thing that 2009 showed us, it's that everything is happening everywhere, across multiple platforms, each one making waves that end up crashing against each other and commingling into one giant media sea.
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You just have to do what you know is right.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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The reason it is difficult is that we have been conditioned to laugh at conspiracy theories, and few people will risk public ridicule by advocating them. On the other hand, to endorse the accidental view is absurd. Almost all of history is an unbroken trail of one conspiracy after another. Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception.
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Our economic future rests on the extent to which all students, especially those who represent America's growing majority, have access to rigorous, college-preparatory classes and excellent teachers.
Chaka Fattah -
We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture.
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'24' is a pretty serious show - there isn't a lot of improv that is happening. Having said that, I do play around with the delivery. A lot of the humor comes from playing a character who is very furious and really up in her own brain and in a serious situation. That is humorous to me.
