Fred Armisen Quotes
I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is.
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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What matters most is the win.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'
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There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
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Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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I've fallen victim to worrying about what everybody thinks. It's never going to be that everyone is happy. You just gotta know what you like and go with it.
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From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.
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Never before have I lived through a storm like the one this night. … The sea has a look of indescribable grandeur, especially when the sun falls on it. One feels as if one is dissolved and merged into Nature. Even more than usual, one feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.
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I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as it is.
