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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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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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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Sharing with just your friends doesn't protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will disagree and argue that users can control what is shared with whom. But this is simply an illusion that makes us feel better about all the sharing we have done and are about to do.
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I worked on both 'Borat' and 'Bruno,' but in a very producer-y role.
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It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.
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Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
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My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?
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I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.
