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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I absolutely believe that President Obama was born in the United States. I don't buy into the claims that he wasn't.
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My father was unwell when I was 11, had a stroke at 14 and died when I was 18. My mother going to work at seven in the morning and coming back to look after him and me and my brother left its mark on me.
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Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.
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I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.
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'Top Of The Lake' is a great story with a beginning, and a middle and an end, about darkness - it's like the heart of darkness. And everybody has got one. When I was reading it, I couldn't put it down, and I wanted to know what was going to happen next.
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'Sandinista!' is a masterpiece.
