Lake Bell Quotes
I learned how to direct by being in the trenches of movies. Getting to be a student from the inside looking out, and if you're a respectful observer you can sponge lots of information. That was my film school.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
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Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
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My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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You can't take good health for granted.
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
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His self-emptying is the revelation of his omnipotence in love.
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We've long believed teachers know best what their students need to succeed, and that includes the creation of healthy, supportive school communities.
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My cat does this thing where he's so happy to see me that he repeatedly smashes his face into my face and purrs like a literal pig.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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I learned how to direct by being in the trenches of movies. Getting to be a student from the inside looking out, and if you're a respectful observer you can sponge lots of information. That was my film school.
