Janeane Garofalo Quotes
I've seen other comics, with great pleasure, watching their own specials, and I don't know how or why they do it.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.
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A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.
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I have a special interest in children who have lost a parent or loved one in the line of duty as they served their country as a police officer, firefighter, federal agent or member of the military, but children all over the word need help and an opportunity to flourish.
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I went to Dave Eggers with this idea of doing a movie about a guy going through some sort of Frank Capra-esque journey.
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The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
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Buy into good, well-researched companies and then wait. Let's call it a sit-on-your-hands investment strategy.
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If we give the attributes of a medium to the artist, we must then deny him the state of consciousness on the aesthetic plane about what he is doing or why he is doing it. All this decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis, spoken or written, or even thought out.
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Great people want to work on things that matter. Inevitably, a great person working on imaginary work will turn into an unsatisfied person.
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I've seen other comics, with great pleasure, watching their own specials, and I don't know how or why they do it.
