Marc Maron Quotes
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I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.
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My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.
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But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
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When I'm doing my makeup, my favorite feature to enhance is the brows. They frame your face - good eyebrows are so important.
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All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.
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I often say, if I wasn't part of the show I'd be a huge fan of it.
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Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.
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I am done with the cliched heroine roles. I can't go to work without a challenge. I want to do films that drive me, films in which I am a part of the main plot.
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Just because you are lucky does not mean you make good choices.
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Putting a monkey wrench in machinery is often the only way to force somebody to repair, replace, or redesign the machinery. Especially legal or social machinery.
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Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man.
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I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom.
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When I saw 'Talk to Her' for the first time, I was crying out loud because I couldn't imagine that I was doing that film.
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As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete.
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I feel honesty always works.
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Lie detectors sometimes work because people believe they work, deterring the wrong people from applying for jobs in the first place, or prompting admissions of guilt during interrogations.
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
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'Among Friends' was really well written and had strong characters, and while all the elements were there to make it a great genre film, it also left room for me to put a creative flair on it that wasn't your typical slasher or psychological thriller.
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When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.
