Stephen Root Quotes
I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
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History will treat me right.
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In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.
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There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.
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For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.
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I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.
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I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.
