Adam Arkin Quotes
First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.
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To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.
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I love so many styles of music.
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I've only twice in my life come across someone with both high IQ and high EQ naturally; and that was because their parents were super high EQ, and the parents just EQ'd the hell out of them. They're inevitably very successful because now you've got someone who's sharper than the average person and well-rounded, too.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
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People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
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We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean' aunt.
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The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
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Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not.
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A lot of the songs in 'See Jane Sing!' are pulled straight from the kitchen table and my parents harmonizing together.
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In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.
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It's really weird watching the government watch me.
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First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.
