Fred Armisen Quotes
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My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
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We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.
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There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
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Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.
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I love my brother. I miss my brother.
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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.
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I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
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History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
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Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I think that, at oftentimes, the ability to allow the dialogue to recede properly into the world of the film is also a really valid sort of way to be a writer, I think.
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A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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You ever take a dump, made you feel you'd just slept for twelve hours?
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You know you're on the Senior Tour when your back goes out more than you do.
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'Sandinista!' is a masterpiece.
