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My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.
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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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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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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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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
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I'd go fishing and always pretend I would catch the biggest fish. I'd stay out there for hours after everybody else left until I caught something. When I shot baskets, I was always the coach and star player and always made the winning shot.
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Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That's what we want to do.
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People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.
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Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.
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My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.
