Janeane Garofalo Quotes
I'm not specifically attached to anything other than trying to, in my personal life, fight against where I see right wing thinking. Whether it be around my dinner table or on the street or somebody reading the New York Post.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.
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I've always wanted to be a singer.
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As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to make sure it's a smooth transition. I believe we still need places where people can go to handle, hold and talk about books, get information about what books are out there, and so on.
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When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it's unlikely to be from a wealthy man, so she'll have a hard life trying to make ends meet for her growing family.
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Music, even if I ended up doing something different or do end up doing something different in the long run, it's just something that is life blood. If I'm not participating in some way, I feel like I'm wasting my time.
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If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.
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I'm not specifically attached to anything other than trying to, in my personal life, fight against where I see right wing thinking. Whether it be around my dinner table or on the street or somebody reading the New York Post.
