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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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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You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country.
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The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see.
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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
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My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
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Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny.
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Taste in comedy, like fashion, changes all the time.
