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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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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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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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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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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If a new artist wants to put out some sort of off-the-wall, crazy deep ballad about the sun or whatever, it might be hard to get traction. It's so much easier for someone established to put out a really heartfelt, deep song and get it played in radio.
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I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.
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AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.
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Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives--professions that tend to place a premium on winning arguments rather than solving problems.
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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.
