Fred Armisen Quotes
Since I was, like, an infant... I remember being in love with television. I loved listening to music. I wanted to be on records, and I wanted to be on TV.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.
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Adequacy is sufficient.
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Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
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Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.
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Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.
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If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words—strike that, I love words—and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too.
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A poet is an unhappy creature whose heart is tortured by deepest suffering but whose lips are so formed that when his sighs and cries stream out over them, their sound beomes like the sound of beautiful music . . . . And men flock about the poet saying, Sing for us soon again; that is to say, may new sufferings torture your soul, and may your lips continue to be formed as before.
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Since I was, like, an infant... I remember being in love with television. I loved listening to music. I wanted to be on records, and I wanted to be on TV.
