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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When you've been brought up in variety, I think timing is always important in your life. If I'm ever late for anything, whether it's personal or business, I always apologise. 'I'm sorry I'm late,' and all that. And if somebody is late meeting me, I expect them to say 'I'm sorry I'm late.' It's just, shall we say, showbiz etiquette of my day.
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Always the danger for me in life and in art is not to be brave. I am not a naturally brave person. I have to will myself not to hole up in my house and read my life away.
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I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.
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Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero's not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes - and no stakes, then you don't care if he lives or dies, wins or loses.
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One of my aunties inspires me beause of how easily she shows her emotions, and she isn't ever afraid to cry. My mum, for her work ethic - she might not show her emotions in public very much, but she's a total power woman. My grandma, who watched four of her children die before her, she's a powerhouse.
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I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.
