Sally Schneider Quotes
To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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What I've noticed is not only in the military, but in the first responders community, that when you reach out your hand to help one of them, they almost always grab your hand with only one of theirs, because they're using their other hand to reach behind them and pull up somebody else with them.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
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Sure, I want to be the best actor in the world. But my life is my family, my son, my friends. I don't know how anyone can find fault with that.
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?
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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
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When a writer receives praise or blame, when he arouses sympathy or is ridiculed, when he is loved or rejected, it is not on the strength of his thoughts and dreams as a whole, but only of that infinitesimal part which has been able to make its way through the narrow channel of language and the equally narrow channel of the reader's understanding.
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I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
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To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
