Nicholas Stoller Quotes

I love the romantic comedy genre. It's a genre rich with many of the best movies ever made and I try to treat it with the respect that Shakespeare treated it with.

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• It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.

  

  Rachel McAdams
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• Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.

  

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• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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• The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

  

  Ted Engstrom
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• Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.

  

  Patrick deWitt
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• So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

  

  Sam Kinison
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• When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.

  

  Carl Lewis
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• There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
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• Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• While your intentions may be good, this is something every expectant working mom fears - being phased out. I'll put myself out there and admit this has been/is a fear of mine. Let her be the one to decide whether something's too much for her to handle or not.

  

  Christine Tsai
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• Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

  

  Donald Trump
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• We cannot afford to lose any more people as a result of hatred.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
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• Tra-la-las and doo-be-do's became a Neil Sedaka trademark. I was the king of the tra-la-las and doo-be-do's in the '50s and '60s. But then when I re-recorded 'Breaking Up,' I started with a verse instead of the doo-be-do's!

  

  Neil Sedaka
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• It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

  

  David Hackworth
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• If I give dollars to some charity, nobody cares. I mean, it helps the charity, but nobody cares. But if the Dodgers do the same thing, they bring more focus to issues, and that makes it better.

  

  Mark Walter
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• I am a believer in the rights of the unborn and the goodness of every life, and I have promised that, as governor, I will champion those values.

  

  Doug Ducey
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• Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.

  

  Douglas Coupland
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• Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.

  

  Paula Abdul
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• Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
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  • Harmony

• I'm sure, to many people, my life is not that exciting, but to me every day is an adventure.

  

  Angela Kinsey
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  • Adventure

• I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation.

  

  Leigh Steinberg
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• I always stayed away from political commentary. First of all, I didn't feel entitled. What I may feel about a candidate, I'm a comedian. I mean, if people like my comedy, that doesn't mean they should vote for the person I like. That's why I always kind of stayed away from endorsements.

  

  Bob Newhart
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• I love the romantic comedy genre. It's a genre rich with many of the best movies ever made and I try to treat it with the respect that Shakespeare treated it with.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Trying
  • Comedy
  • Rich