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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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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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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It wasn't so much that I was all alone on stage, but it was the realization of how much you need the response-you need the audience to tell you where to go.
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You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.
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Ten years after Dayton, that these two primary architects of these appalling crimes should still be free is a failure on all sides.
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There's always constantly interesting things to do, and who knows, maybe I will be a good sculptor. I haven't decided what I am going to do next, but I am not going to quit just because I did something interesting.
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I just want you inside, baby, we don't need to talk about promises.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
