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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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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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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At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.
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Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.
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Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.
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What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
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Emma took the revelation, on polygamy supposed she had all there was; but Joseph had wisdom enough to take care of it, and he had handed the revelation to Bishop Whitney, and he wrote it all off... She went to the fireplace and put it in, and put a candle under it and burnt it, and she thought that was the end of it, and she will be damned as sure as she is a living woman. Joseph used to say that he would have her hereafter, if he had to go to hell for her, and he will have to go to hell for her as sure as he ever gets her.
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Discomfort is the way to go if you want to make something you feel is worthwhile.
