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I don't think it's good, culturally, to base all critical judgments on a single performance.

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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Time
  • House
  • Giving

• One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Government

• You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Want
  • Play
  • Ahead

• I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Great
  • Car
  • Drive

• I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Truth

• I don't believe in strong-arming people.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Today
  • Democracy

• One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Star

• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Character
  • Woman

• Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Career
  • You
  • Know

• One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Chaos

• I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Work
  • Music
  • Genius

• In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Good
  • Way
  • Screen

• When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Up
  • Change
  • Day

• On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.

  

  Jack Keane
  • High
  • Problem
  • Professional

• I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Long
  • Why
  • Remember

• When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Age
  • Old Age

• Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Money
  • Soul

• From the start. As early as - I felt I was in the wrong sex; I really did. I would go into my dad's room and put on his clothes.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Dad
  • Sex

• I, uh, don't think I'm, y'know, so different than your average, y'know, average.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • Different

• We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Good
  • Control
  • Motivational

• I don't think it's good, culturally, to base all critical judgments on a single performance.

  

  John Tiffany
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