Samantha Bee Quotes
I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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I have a great office.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.
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I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to move story along or as a way to make things more entertaining.
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The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel - except perhaps jealousy. And the breath, the breath is the captain of that vessel.
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Nothing sounds worse than having to be surrounded by people you don't like in a sequined dress.
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Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
