Michael Showalter Quotes

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.

Michael Showalter

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• Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
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• It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
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• I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.

  

  Edie Falco
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• Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.

  

  Saffron Burrows
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• We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
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• I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.

  

  Natalie Wood
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• I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
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• What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Feels
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• God did not direct His call to Isaiah— Isaiah overheard God saying, ". . . who will go for Us?" The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God’s call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• We're right on the edge of going into a drought period. If there's no change, we're likely to see a drought this spring.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Period
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• I don't take advances for my books.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Book

• Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be.

  

  Alvin Nathaniel Joiner
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• I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.

  

  Alexander McQueen
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• Were I asked to focus the New Testament message in three words, my proposal would be ADOPTION THROUGH PROPITIATION, and I do not expect ever to meet a richer or more pregnant summary of the gospel than that.

  

  J. I. Packer
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• As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!

  

  Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
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• The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.

  

  Keanu Reeves
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• At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
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• To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Mind
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• When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.

  

  Alexis Taylor
  • Audience
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• It is essential for men of science to take an interest in the administration of their own affairs or else the professional civil servant will step in - and then the Lord help you.

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • Helping
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• A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it.

  

  Michael Showalter
  • Feelings
  • Audience
  • Helping