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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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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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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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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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.
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Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
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The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
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People know who I am. I have less ability to be intimidated, in a sense, than others coming up.
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Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.
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I'm not advocating we should all be back in the kitchen and cooking all the time, because life's too short and we've got more interesting things to do. But to rediscover the intense pleasure of making a cake and putting it down on the table is ridiculously satisfying, out of all proportion to the work.
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The arena of women's lives is somewhat more intimate. If a woman goes out with an incredibly attractive man and they break up, that woman is not more attractive to men. It's completely irrelevant to them. That's an example of the way women's minds work.
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Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
