Anders Holm Quotes
On 'Workaholics,' I feel like I'm just hanging out with my buddies being filmed, but on 'Mindy,' I'm around professional funny people who act. Guys like Chris Messina, who are the real deal. I watch what they do and put my own spin on it.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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The world is too violent right now.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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I really love the '90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
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The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.
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I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.
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I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.
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Most of the movies nominated for Oscars put me to sleep.
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People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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People are always asking me in interviews, 'What do you think of foreign affairs?' I just say, 'I've had a few.'
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On 'Workaholics,' I feel like I'm just hanging out with my buddies being filmed, but on 'Mindy,' I'm around professional funny people who act. Guys like Chris Messina, who are the real deal. I watch what they do and put my own spin on it.
