Austan Goolsbee Quotes
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?
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I usually cast myself in things because acting is how I best relate to artistic impulses. It's what I've wanted to do since I was a child, so a scene usually plays itself out in my head with me performing it. And if I cast myself that's one less person I have to pay, one less person I have to explain my vision to, one less person I have to worry about.
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The main way that being adopted has shaped my songwriting is that I was asked at an early age to consider the circumstances that led to my life, and in a way, I was introduced to how fragile and unlikely life is from the beginning.
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Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.
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Evolution has been the key tenet of success over the past 13 years, and we have transformed from a single subscription e-commerce image business into a company with a diversified portfolio of content offerings, servicing the needs of businesses of all types and sizes globally.
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I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.
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Let's pass the small business credit enhancement bill so small business can get back on its feet.
