Fred Armisen Quotes
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.
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Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
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Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play.
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There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.
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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
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I have always been like this. I take after my father. I'm just chill.
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I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and relevance there, because that's what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.
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People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.
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Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
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You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.
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A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything.
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.
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When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.
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As a kid, I was only allowed to watch a certain amount of television. But once I was old enough to own my own TV, I would stay up until 4:00 A.M. watching Home Shopping Network night after night. Soft-spoken women talked about the jewelry in very detailed, intricate, precious ways, and I loved it.
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I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.
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Discomfort is the way to go if you want to make something you feel is worthwhile.
