Eugene Mirman Quotes
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
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I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
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In life, there's a ladder sometimes, and maybe at the top, there's a mirror. You take a step up, then maybe three steps down... just because you don't want to face the decloaking in the mirror.
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All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
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They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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Suffering without faith would be like love without hope.
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Helping women achieve higher pay is a core goal of this book.
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There are time when, in effect, you can do no wrong, and there are other periods of time when you can do no right, no matter what you do.
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Is the square root of hate the same thing as love times love?
