Berkeley Breathed Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves.
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We eat the same breakfast every day. We are like robots. I always do two eggs over easy with turkey bacon - we enjoy the taste of it more than pork - and avocado. I carve it all up into a bowl so it's like a slop, and I load it with salt and pepper and Cholula.
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I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.
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I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn’t want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when you’re a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.
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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
