Eugene Mirman Quotes
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
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The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
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I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.
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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
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Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.
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If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.
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What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.
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You can do anything you want, as long as it works.
