Zach Galifianakis Quotes
As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
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It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
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I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the 'Lost' world.
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I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a spectacular corner of the world, with massive old trees lined with Spanish moss, and alligators swimming in the river.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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Helping doing business easier, we choose the name Alibaba because it is a global company. It is founded in China, but it was created for the world.
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There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
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At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.
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I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella. That’s one of my favorite lines of all time. It’s from a movie called Almost Famous. I think what it means is that life is going to throw all kinds of stuff at you, good and bad. But all you can do is get out there and try to stay dry.
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The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of Great Britain that slaves in America were exposed to because they often worked alongside the indentured servants who spoke those dialects that we often learn about in school.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
