Michael Ian Black Quotes
As an actor, you can show up on a set and be on a TV show for three or four years, or whatever it is and, by the end of it, you just want to do something else.
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We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
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We rarely grow when we're happy, we grow when we hurt.
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It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.
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I want a girlfriend who eats as much as I do, which is a lot.
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Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.
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God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.
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A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
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Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
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My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.
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So the CD is a great way to get yourself acquainted with some people who in three years, maybe even one year, be really big.
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It’s a very interesting thing to try to be your absolute best—not a percent better or a percent worse than that.
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I'm not saying it's the city's fault. But I'm saying it's the city's fault that those two dogs are walking around the city attacking people. And I think that the city should do something about helping her to the best of their ability.
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Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
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I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull.
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One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy.
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As actors, the magic is in the almost spiritual experience to really enter another world, to really enter a belief of being in another person's shoes and to really take on their experiences as someone else has written them and imagined them. It's kind of a sacred thing. It's a very spiritual experience. That in itself for me is the main thing that keeps me coming back to it. I like to travel, but for me, this is the greatest travel.
