Fred Armisen Quotes
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
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I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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A different image came to me a few weeks ago. The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth or hard marl, resisting penetration... the sea advances insensibly in silence, nothing seems to happen, nothing moves, the water is so far off you hardly hear it... yet finally it surrounds the resistant substance.
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I am not a political man and I have no political convictions. I am an individual and a believer in liberty. That is all the politics I have. On the other hand I am not a super-patriot. Super-patriotism leads to Hitlerism - and we've had our lesson there. I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.
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At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.
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I see everything as a positive that can only help me.
