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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I see myself as having three families: my birth family, the family that raised me, and my Cree family, who I was reunited with in my late teens, so I consider myself to be lucky.
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I could have easily said that I don't believe in anything when I came out of the upbringing that I had, but I do still believe that there is something there, and I have a difficult time figuring it out. I suppose I don't want to be thought of as stupid or unintelligent because I believe that there's something out there bigger than us in the world.
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He doesn't talk much. He is a hard-working and cooperative guy.
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It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.
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I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.
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I was actually late to the punk movement because I was too young.
