Ian Doescher Quotes
Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.
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We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.
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If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.
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Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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I guess I can be stereotypical and say that Asians are very cheap.
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You can drive yourself crazy and tie yourself in knots trying to anticipate what someone's going to like or not like, and doing test screenings and opinion polls. But pay too much mind to that, and you'll wind up with a big pile of mush.
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It has different feels to it, like the song has different tempos and intensities, and Sam pulled it off.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
