Fred Armisen Quotes
The way James Franco goes to new projects, he does it the way an artist should, which is with a question mark. Like, will this work?
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.
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I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.
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It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.
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There are values on Broadway that are dangerous: it's got to be Best Musical, it's got to make money, it's got to run a certain amount of time. Nowhere in this, of course, is there any mention of quality.
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The failure mode of clever is 'asshole.'
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The way James Franco goes to new projects, he does it the way an artist should, which is with a question mark. Like, will this work?
