Ty Burrell Quotes
My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.
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It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.
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On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
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I assume everyone around me is older because they look more responsible.
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
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In the '70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the reporters suddenly became middle class. It's much more respectable, more uptight, and everyone speaks in guarded tones. And the writing isn't as good. We always had guys who were failed poets and failed novelists who did it to eat.
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In 1996, President Clinton put together a detailed agenda called 'A Bridge to the 21st Century' that told voters why, in his words, 'rehire him' for another four years. That's the right way for an incumbent president to run for re-election.
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My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.
