Alex Borstein Quotes
Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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We cater for fashion-conscious people.
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Pointing forward in time, we see in Plato the first detailed formulation in Western thought of themes that would persist and be developed further in the classical philosophical tradition, from Aristotle to Augustine to the Scholastics: that the material world points beyond itself to an eternal source; that things have immutable forms or essences; that the foundation of morality is to be found in this source and in these essences; that human beings have immaterial souls; that all of this is knowable through reason, and that knowing it is the highest end of philosophy and science.
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I love doing the conventions and being an ambassador for 'Star Wars.'
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As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal opportunity.
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It cannot be surprising that, as resistance within Cuba grows, refugees have been using whatever means are available to return and support their countrymen in the continuing struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties.
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Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.
