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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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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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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Maybe by making people feel uncomfortable, I tap into that uncanny quality that is a part of the scariest, weirdest things that you remember happening to you when you were a kid.
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You get into these executive offices, and people say, 'Oh, we have this project. Wait a minute, guys, we need diversity - let's choose a black actor for this; let's choose a Hispanic actor for this,' instead of saying, 'That's not diverse, that's just normal. That's what makes up America.'
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.
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I get the hypocrisy thing, but any human being is allowed to have a public and private face, and celebrities should have the same rights as regular people to decide what cards they lay down and what cards they hide.
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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.
