Dana Carvey Quotes
I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their world.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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We all know and we all perceive Christian Dior in a very specific way.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback, and yet nearly all us live in big cities. Move outside the coastal fringe, and Australia can feel like a foreign country.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue.
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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So don't applaud. Just send me the check.
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Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.
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I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their world.
