Jeffrey Tambor Quotes
There was one television in the living room, and we all sat around on Sundays and watched Ed Sullivan.
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I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.
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I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I usually have eight to 10 meetings a day and travel 150 days a year..._It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.
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Friends are not made, but recognized.
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
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Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
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You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.
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I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
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I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you're somebody who's used to making a decision about what they want to do and getting it and achieving it, when your body fails you, it's a whole other experience.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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I think I'm under the radar enough where I don't think I'm typecast as anything yet, so I'm pretty free and clear.
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We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe
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Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes.
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Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him!Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears!Not for him who has died full of honor and years!Not for him who ascended Fame’s ladder so high:From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky.
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There was one television in the living room, and we all sat around on Sundays and watched Ed Sullivan.
