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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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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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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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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Everybody's doing it. When I'm performing and I do the Dougie, the fans lose their minds.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.
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I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.
