Janeane Garofalo Quotes
'Anybody who French bashes just might as well wear a badge that says 'I am a follower! I don't think for myself and I have no idea what I'm talking about.' That would be a French basher.'
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Modeling was never anything that was a career choice. I did catalog work in Toronto to make money so that I could go to school.
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Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
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Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.
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When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.
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Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry.
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Telling parents in New Jersey you want to act isn't exactly like telling them you want to be a doctor or a dentist. There are no guarantees. It's hard, but all the arts are. Can you imagine the pain of writer's block?
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I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.
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It is commonly said that covetousness is one of the reigning sins of old age. How strange that it should be so! Especially considering what they have seen, and known, and it may be, felt of the emptiness and uncertainty of riches. They have witnessed how often they make themselves wings. What! And not yet convinced! What! Almost at the end of thy journey, and yet loading thyself with thick clay! Think of the time of day. It is almost night; even sun-set. And art thou unmindful of the grave? The body is bending downwards, let the heart be upwards.
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“I was a hoarder, a collector of facts that I stored in my brain for later use, not knowing what this use might be.
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'Anybody who French bashes just might as well wear a badge that says 'I am a follower! I don't think for myself and I have no idea what I'm talking about.' That would be a French basher.'
