William Landay Quotes
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.
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If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.
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My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
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I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
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We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.
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You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.
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I turned around and she kind of had some tears in her eyes.
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We'll kind of study the film, ... but I think he's got a lot of poise in there. I think he carries himself well. I think he's an accurate passer, but we're still getting to know him.
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God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.
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I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while I'm working is to try to make interesting photographs, and what to do with them is another act - an alter consideration. Certainly while I'm working, I want them to be as useless as possible.
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Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.
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I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.
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Hello there. I'm out social climbing, but if you leave your name and number and if you're anybody, I'll get back to you.
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I want the music to be heard as close to when I made it, as much as possible. I don't want to get into some "future of the music industry" thing, or where I stand on digital this or that, but I think it's ridiculous that a lot of people in the industry plan so far ahead that it makes a lot of improvisation impossible and makes a lot of people's expectations fixed and not fluid.
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I just think Radiohead are f-in' miserable bastards.
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You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.
