Eugene Mirman Quotes
I don't have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking.
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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.
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I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.
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I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.
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All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
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My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
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I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.
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I don't think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does.
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On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.
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What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
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Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.
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The amount of money that's being put into long-form investigative journalism has become less and less.
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My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.
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We're put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.
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I don't have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking.
