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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I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.
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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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What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.
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I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
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The things that always seem to work are the things that any magician can duplicate. Randi's quite right to point that out. But that's not because I'm doing a conjuring trick. You'd think that whatever causes these things to happen doesn't want them to be proved.
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'Sandinista!' is a masterpiece.
