Nasim Pedrad Quotes
I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
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I'm not a great boss because I don't like to tell other people what to do.
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I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.
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As a songwriter, I try not to be sloppy; same with the music. You can be very lean, very efficient, so you're not wasting a lot of time getting' to the point. You're saying it with as pure a word or phrase as you can. That's the part that was craft. You refine and refine and refine. Maybe that's why the songs still hang on, because they're very pure. For one thing, they're very short. "Bad Moon Rising" is like 2 minutes and 12 seconds. I would try to do everything as quickly and with as little extra as possible. It was a challenge.
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The Center for American Progress rates Maryland as the best state in the nation for women. I couldn't agree more.
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Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.
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I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire.
