Ana Gasteyer Quotes
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I've directed independent film.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.
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I like things simple.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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NyQuil, NyQuil, NyQuil! We love you, you giant fucking 'Q'!
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I've always fought for what I believe in. I used to get made fun of for dancing, and I would argue back, or fight the kids, or do whatever I had to do to shut them up. I have that in me.
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In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.
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It's great to be able to play the 'bad guy' role, because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why - how does a person get to that particular point.
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When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.
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I'm so bad at spontaneous impressions.
