Kyle Mooney Quotes
I've got a massive VHS collection in my apartment. Some people think that it's not a good thing, but I find comfort in it.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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I don't want to be known for someone that's good-looking. I want to be known as someone who is one of the best midfielders. That's my thing.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
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I've always wanted to title an album 'Illinois.' I wrote the song, which was a very special song to me. The song isn't exactly about being from there, even though I am.
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Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.
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It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.
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It's so great to be able to write from home. My bread is rising downstairs, and I'm upstairs writing. I have a writing room that my grandchildren consider one of their playrooms.
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America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.
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I've got a massive VHS collection in my apartment. Some people think that it's not a good thing, but I find comfort in it.
