Steve Carell (Steven John Carell) Quotes
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
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I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.
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I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way.
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The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.
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What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.
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Let's be honest: the label of model-daughter-of-celebrity mother is... you know, I don't want to have that label. It's not who I am. It's not my values to go off someone else's name and to be pigeonholed as that. So in a way, that has really pushed me to be more independent.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.
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Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
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My character Milly in 'The Boy Who Could Fly' was a very strong part. There were dramatic moments, and there were humorous moments, too. The whole story with Eric Underwood's character was just wonderful, and the messages behind the script were very important to me.
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Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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If Ed Sheeran covered my songs, I would die. That would be unbelievable.
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Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.
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The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand.
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I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.
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Taste in comedy, like fashion, changes all the time.
