Janeane Garofalo Quotes
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
Nastassja Kinski -
When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
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A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
Gail Devers -
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
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I'm a mac and cheese freak. Homemade or from the blue box, I'm not picky!
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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I've worked nonstop for 31 years. I've counted down myself hundreds of cues for everything in each 90-minute show. I've never really taken an extended break, so I'd like to see what a vacation is really like.
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Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it's fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
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I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.
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I'm not a cook. I like to watch the Food Network, but I don't like to cook.
