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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The emotional aspects of a wilderness experience might be compared to a religious experience. It is particularly valuable for those people whose unconscious associations of pain and discomfort in relationships to man render a deity in human form impossible. Christianity is unacceptable to some people because of the use of the human symbol, but some who can't accept Christ can gain a tremendous sense of peace from relating to uncontaminated areas.
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You feel like you're trying to show off your cool by mentioning the five bands that you know are great and the five books that will reflect well on you. I can't do it. I should take the time to but I don't want to take the time to do that.
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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.
