Dan Castellaneta Quotes
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
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Film has to describe and show.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
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The main thing is to know something and to say it.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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Money often costs too much.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.
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I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.
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The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health, good order, and prosperity is a power originally and always belonging to the states, not surrendered to them by the general government, nor directly restrained by the constitution of the United States, and essentially exclusive.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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I often say, if I wasn't part of the show I'd be a huge fan of it.
