Dana Carvey Quotes
Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
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When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
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Custom is second nature.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'
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Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
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I've always had volume on my side: the big-voice-in-a-small-package thing. I surprise people.
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We're going to fight to the end. But it's better if you fight to somebody else's end.
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The fact that human intuition is ill suited to situations involving uncertainty was known as early as the 1930's, when researchers noted that people could neither make up a sequence of numbers that passed mathematical tests for randomness nor recognize reliably whether a given string was randomly generated.
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I'm not big on looking up myself. I don't get Google alerts, and I don't look on blogs.
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Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
