Vanessa Bayer Quotes
There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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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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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.
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I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.
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Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a "sense" of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait, yet rejects humor as a contaminating element wherever found. America is a nation of comics and comedians; nevertheless, humor has no stature and is accepted only after the death of the perpetrator.
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We all know that the nation can't divide more than the people produce, but as individuals we try to get more than our share and that's how we get ahead.
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There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.
