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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I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.
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It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.
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The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says "yes" to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says "Maybe," and in the great majority of cases simply "No." If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter "Maybe," and if it does not agree it means "No." Probably every theory will some day experience its "No" - most theories, soon after conception.
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I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.
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Information for you. It will be graphic. The pill didn’t agree with.
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I often say, if I wasn't part of the show I'd be a huge fan of it.
