Fred Armisen Quotes
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Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
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When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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I would love to have played Gollum.
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Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.
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In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
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My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.
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I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it's natural over there.
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I love spreadsheets. I do all the finances. I pay the publicists. I have to compartmentalize the creative and the business, so there are sacrifices. But ultimately, I get to be the CEO of my own business.
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I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.
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Up until the 1960s, women would meet designers in their private ateliers, and together they would build a relationship and a wardrobe. Then, all of a sudden, designers disappeared into their own private bubble, and there was no communication.
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I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.
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I'm superconscious of not putting chemicals on my skin, like parabens and sulfates.
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
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Ever if ya test nuts, to the chest and put em to rest and, but...
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All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them.
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The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing.
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The neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux and his colleagues have shown that the only way we can consciously access the emotional brain is through self-awareness, i.e. by activating the medial prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that notices what is going on inside us and thus allows us to feel what we’re feeling.
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Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.
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I was actually late to the punk movement because I was too young.
