Carol Rifka Brunt Quotes
I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks like it's been polished up. All the streets shine and lights from everywhere reflect off the black. It's like the whole place has been dipped in sugar syrup. Like the city is some kind of big candy apple.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I want the single player experience.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
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I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer.
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There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
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Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one.
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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
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With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
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One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.
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When I was a kid, I'd always wanted to take karate, but my parents wouldn't let me because I did a lot of other things, including ballet.
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Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.
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I hate Whole Foods.
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I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.
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I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks like it's been polished up. All the streets shine and lights from everywhere reflect off the black. It's like the whole place has been dipped in sugar syrup. Like the city is some kind of big candy apple.
