Stephen Root Quotes
I would have to say News Radio is the highlight of my career. I love the character so much.
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Acting is in your soul.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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But things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take it from there. Professor Flitwick in 'Harry Potter', I kind of defined how I saw him from reading the book, and luckily that matched up with the director's vision.
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The whole Land of Israel is a single bloc. There are those who say we can build inside the settlement blocs, and others who say we may not be able to hold onto the towns outside the blocs. I have come to tell you what the Arabs already know - that the Land of Israel is one bloc.
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My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems.
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You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.
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I want to write songs people can sing along to. I can think of nothing more exciting than travelling the world and playing to audiences and having them sing your words along with you.
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Sometimes you might feel like you're not good enough or unique enough, but everyone is! Everyone has different personalities.
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I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level.
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It's just a challenge doing live television every week; you know, it's a challenge to come up with new material every week and stuff like that and try to keep it current, you know what I mean? Like, it's just, you know, it's a kind of a stressful environment.
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On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready.
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I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.
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I think there is a lot of good in making the All-Star Team. People look at your career a little bit differently.
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I see myself as the ambassador of hip-hop. I do songs with people from everywhere. We ain't got nothing but love.
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I would have to say News Radio is the highlight of my career. I love the character so much.
