Maya Rudolph Quotes
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As a songwriter, pop music really is a love and a joy and a science, and I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.
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I grew up thinking my father was tacky. There was no color coordination. It was whatever was cool. 'These sweatpants are cool. I'll wear them with these shoes that are cool.' He had less inhibitions. I wasn't respectful of his swag then.
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There are so many problems with feminism, as women spend a lot of time telling other women what to do, and that distracts from the actual problem.
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I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.
