Tanya Fischer Quotes
I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.
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I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.
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Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
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I can barely turn on my computer!
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.
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I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.
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I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I'm falling asleep, like I'll go crazy if I don't do it.
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When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not.
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Roger Miller opened a lot of people's eyes to the possibilities of country music, and it's making more impact now because it's earthy material: stories and things that happen to everyday people. I call it 'people music.'
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For an American president to be aiding America's enemy in developing nuclear weapons technology is unprecedented, absolutely.
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Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.
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I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.
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I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.
