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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I grew up in the country. I am a real proud country boy, love getting back home.
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Touring is definitely work. You're spending a lot of time in the car and around the same people and it's not the easiest thing in the world, but it's better than working a 9-to-5 job or something.
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I've always had that attitude about my career: it's something that I do, but it's not my whole life. I have a real life, a personal life: I've got a lot of chickens, I've got a horse, I've got a kitty-cat, I've got a lot of goats, I've got animals all over the place.
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My own zigzag path through life led me back to Santa Cruz in the early Eighties, and I have revisited regularly since. The place hasn't changed: head in the clouds, backside on the hills and feet in the ocean - one of the most decent and beautiful places on earth.
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The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult.
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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.
