Akiva Schaffer Quotes
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.
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I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.
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I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.
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I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.
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In a time where there are divides between cultures and races, I would love to use my position to show that we are all the same inside and working together is the key to moving forward.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it's actually not a terrible place to start.
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I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.
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Once companies begin to outsource, they never go back.
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I love reading almost as much as I love writing.
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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
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Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.
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English superiority and American obedience.
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'It must be nice to think there is a true reality,' says Miss Callendar. 'I've always found reality a matter of great debate.'
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It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.
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I swore I'd be done, and that would be the end of it. And now I am. There isn't a single place left on-world that isn't part of the Bitchun Society. There isn't a single thing left that I want any part of.
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I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.
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The blunt tools of legislation or union power can force a corporation to pay higher wages, but if employees don't create an equal amount of additional value, there's no net gain.
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Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record.
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If you put me in a real Tardis, I dread to think what would happen to the universe.
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I'm all about 'Halo 2'.
