Felicity Huffman Quotes
Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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This town was built on nepotism.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.
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And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.
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I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in their development.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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I don't have any regrets about not having kids. I've just never had those maternal feelings. I am a nurturer by nature, but I nurture adults: my friends, the people I work with. I don't want to nurture children.
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We get stressed out now by having somebody yell at us in the office or by making a mistake or by losing a bunch of money. These aren't problems that our hunter-gatherer ancestors had. They'd get stressed if a lion came to them or a boulder was rolling towards their living quarters. That kind of stress provoked the fight or flight response.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
