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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Strong December durable goods and the upward revision to November show that perhaps there isn't enough monetary restraint after all.
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When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.
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I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
Garry Kasparov -
I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.
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Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.
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I often say, if I wasn't part of the show I'd be a huge fan of it.
