Taran Killam Quotes
There's no job like 'SNL.' There's no other job you go to where you're like, 'Oh, this is like that live, late-night sketch variety-musical show that shoots in, whatever it is, 10,000 feet of sound stage.' There's nothing like it.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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People just get kicks out of making other people sad.
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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Nature hates calculators.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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Every actor wants to, in our own sort of weird sort of way, we really want to push ourselves and test ourselves.
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Sometimes our greatest strengths are also our greatest weaknesses.
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The only job that ever really worked for me was teaching because you are your own master once you get into the room. You just have to show up on time and talk about what you care about.
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While the allure of safety and predictability is strong, achieving true balance means engaging in activities whose outcomes and payoffs are not yet apparent. The most creative people are willing to work in the shadow of uncertainty.
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There's no job like 'SNL.' There's no other job you go to where you're like, 'Oh, this is like that live, late-night sketch variety-musical show that shoots in, whatever it is, 10,000 feet of sound stage.' There's nothing like it.
