Nicholas Offerman (Nick Offerman) Quotes
I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
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My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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I was a commercial roofer before this, until about age thirty. I will not work others under me and do not want to work under others.
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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
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Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.
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Marcus Samuelsson is a chef who inspires me everyday. He has such a deep understanding of flavors and techniques. His food is representative of the diverse world that we live in. What he has done in Harlem with Red Rooster is very special. Marcus is not just a chef, he's a food activist.
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Love's whole world on us doth wheel.
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I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession
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I want to grow as an artist and I'm taking a step out, I want my music to mature.
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I am now The Establishment. There's nothing I can do about it.
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It's always nice to have somebody on your side.
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Thank God for the efforts of Black Lives Matter - we've seen an awakening in this era in a way we didn't see in Daddy's era in terms of people coming to grips with white privilege.
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When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?
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You would think that wrestling has so much to do with being aggressive and having a big ego, and it's exactly the opposite.
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I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching.
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He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.
