Barbra Streisand Quotes
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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I don't like allegories.
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With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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I'm about my characters.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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We really love to learn and explore things.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Fascism is very much a mob movement.
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The magic of movie-making is that you get to fulfill your own dreams.
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I don't make films for critics.
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The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.
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The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.
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I was devastated when they stopped making sailors' pants with bell bottoms. There's something sort of spirited about the way they affected a man's gait. They project something good-natured.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
