Janeane Garofalo Quotes
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.
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Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything in the mother's body from invading the fetus, and vice-versa. That's mostly true. But the placenta doesn't seal off the baby perfectly, and every so often, something slips across.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
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I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends came from.
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I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.
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Belushi was one of my very first heroes. At a time when film, television, and music were undergoing tectonic shifts within American culture, he was at the center of it all. At that moment, he had the number one show on television, the number one film at the box office, and the number one record on the charts.
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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I will defend and enforce the laws of our country to ensure that our people and our nation are protected.
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I appreciate my international fans all over the world.
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I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime.
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Classic was Jimmy Savile’s use of the cloak of authority and kindness. Savile’s celebrity allowed him to acquire this authority. As we consider the regulation of the media and the legal right to privacy it is worth reflecting on how the Savile scandal happened. It happened because the aura of Sir Jimmy’s celebrity protected him from scrutiny by the press.
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We see and hear about Israelis and Palestinians only when they are defined by the global media as 'occupiers,' 'terrorists,' and 'victims.' But we forget that they are fathers and mothers and sons and daughters and neighbors and doctors and shop-owners and farmers and students.
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I enjoy my fun time and everything like that but I love what I do.
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The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... But we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.
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I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal.
