Ogden Nash Quotes
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.

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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.
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I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
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Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
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You never know when you're going to get an opportunity.
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It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
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When you turn on the TV, you hear bad stuff, all the time.
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Though watching porn may seem degrading to some women, the fact is that it's one of the few jobs for women where you can get to a certain level, look around, and feel so powerful, not just in the work environment but as a sexual being. So, fuck Gloria Steinem.
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Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
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I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.