Stephen Root Quotes
My whole career, I've tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I've done a pretty good job of not getting typed.
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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'Freaky Ali' is not a heavy film. It's a simple but inspiring film. It will inspire those who want to go from zero to hundred. People who have made an effort to achieve success from nothing will be able to connect to the character.
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Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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My children are grown now, they are more independent.
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I started from B-grade films, and today I'm the number one actress of this country... whereas other actresses, whom you might call my contemporaries, they have had no growth in whatever platform they were launched... they are still there and have not risen to another platform.
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If you'd have asked me two years ago, I'd have been like "No, anything and everything. Go for it." Now, I want to focus on doing the best I can each time. But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it's good I'm learning to do that, because each record counts. And you should make it count.
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I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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I want to build something I'd be happy to be employed by 10 years out.
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My whole career, I've tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I've done a pretty good job of not getting typed.
