Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group.
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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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Siberia is a state of mind.
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There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
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Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life.
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
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I would say that it's a lot easier, especially if you have a bit of an attention deficit disorder, to be on a movie because you can give it your all, and kill yourself for however many months, and then let it go.
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Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech.
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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
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I'm a late-night guy.
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My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
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I'd hate to have to leave music, but if I got stuck some place, I would.
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If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.
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Art lies because it's social.
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It's a lot easier to find a friend on television than love.
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The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces.
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I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a writer is true to his vocation, to his or her vocation, the very process of creativity enlarges these human horizons. It provides insights, even when you're not writing, when your writing's not dealing with a concrete political situation.
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War will make corpses of us all.
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Whenever we warm our hands by the fire, we allow the energy radiated by the fire to quicken up the movements of the atoms of which the hands are composed. When we cool any substance, we check those movements.
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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
