Maya Rudolph Quotes
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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Women are the overwhelming majority of the workers providing long-term support to seniors and people with disabilities. As a result, women are the ones most affected by legislative decisions on long-term care.
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Usually, 'All Lives Matter' comes as a response to 'Black Lives Matter'; it doesn't exist in a vacuum. So when people say 'Black Lives Matter,' a lot of times the response 'All Lives Matter' can seem very condescending, dismissive to 'Black Lives Matter.'
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The people that tell you what you enjoy is wrong, or come in your life and tell you what you're wearing is wrong are miserable because they focus on the things that they don't like.
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A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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I think that people who don't like kids are awful people.
