Noah Baumbach Quotes
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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Wanting to be a rock star, I get it. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, dude! The freedom!'
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You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.
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I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.
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Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.
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I wanted to really ingrain myself in the culture and the people. And I apologize about having an allergy to dairy products that gives me some irritable bowels, but other than that, I mean, I've embraced just about everything else Wisconsin - especially when it comes to sports, but also the people and the interactions with our fans.
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I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me doing it.
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If democracy is to survive Facebook, that company must realize the outsized role it now plays as both the public forum where our strident democratic drama unfolds and as the vehicle for those who aspire to control that drama's course. Facebook, welcome to the big leagues.
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You only hear the horror stories - that after a baby, you never get your body back - but it's not true; it depends on your life beforehand.
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I always viewed life as material for a movie.
