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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God sent us here to make mistakes.
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I’ve had periods in my life where I wasn’t healthy, for most of my life I’ve been vegetarian and vegan, but vegetarians can still be unhealthy ha ha! For me, health is really important and it’s not an image thing, it’s a necessity for me just to feel content. And when I say that, I mean my body can do what it needs to do and I’ve got energy. With Napalm Death it’s so ultra-energetic you have to maintain a certain level of fitness or you’re going to die on your arse.
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Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.
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...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.
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I was actually late to the punk movement because I was too young.
