Deborah Kaplan Quotes
To be fair, that MTV was very cooperative with the film "Josie and the Pussycats", and this MTV has been very cooperative. I actually didn't even think about it until you said it.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
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I'll say anything to live.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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If you're a competitor, you want to win. That's enough to play for, simple as that.
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I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.
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Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.
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The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.
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Birthdays was the worst days; now we sip champagne when we're thirsty.
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I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.
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My dream was to have a garage where I could put some of the coolest cars I've ever seen throughout my life.
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I'm going to keep rushing the ball until the whistle blows and it's the end of the game. That's how I'm going to keep playing.
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Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.
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A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.
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How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that evokes an emotion in you? That became my motto throughout all my life. Simplicity.
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The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.
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Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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All of us, more than we recognize, are products of the thinking around us. And much of this thinking is little, not big.
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I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name.
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To be fair, that MTV was very cooperative with the film "Josie and the Pussycats", and this MTV has been very cooperative. I actually didn't even think about it until you said it.
