Mike Scully Quotes
You've got to pay the bills, and you want to get your foot in. The great shows usually aren't going to look for somebody completely untested, so you have to kind of get your feet wet doing other shows.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Being evil is easy.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.
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Nazism promoted Germany from a low to a fantastic physical and ideological status.
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Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.
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If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS.
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And the ability of citizens to organize and advocate for change - that's the oxygen upon which democracy depends.
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To fall suddenly sick when you have never been ill is a hard lesson. If it teaches anything, it teaches you that you must not trust to the thing you know, that it is better to build on shifting sand than the rock which may confound you on the day it shatters.
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The 'good old times' - all times when old are good -Are gone.
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I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.
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I saw clearly only when I saw with love. Or can one ever remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. And that's the truth of roses, isn't it? - The perfume?
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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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There are screens at the gas station, there are screens at the shopping mall. And they all need content.
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Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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I'm kind of quoting Thurston [Moore] and Kim [Gordon] in saying that about not being great with addicts, because they are the ones who said it to me.
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You've got to pay the bills, and you want to get your foot in. The great shows usually aren't going to look for somebody completely untested, so you have to kind of get your feet wet doing other shows.
