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 -
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.
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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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I can never really enjoy being famous.
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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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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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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 -
I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.
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I have seen and heard comedians who had really funny 'stuff' but yet could not make the people laugh; then, again - I have seen others whose stuff was anything but humorous, and the audience would howl with laughter.
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I always do a lot of work around characters to make them real people because, oftentimes, they really are a sliver of a person. Even with truly wonderful writers, women characters are there to emote, and they're often incredibly chaste or worthy. Or they're a 'different type of woman', which is the worst.
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The ways of thinking implanted by electronic culture are very different from those fostered by print culture. Since the Renaissance most methods and procedures have strongly tended towards stress on the visual organization of knowledge.
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So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.
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I'm not a cook. I like to watch the Food Network, but I don't like to cook.
