Akiva Schaffer Quotes
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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Parts that are desexed, matronly – to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
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A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
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I'm one of the regulars. I play this doctor, Dr. Andrew Brown, going through some marriage problems.
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The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character's soul.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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I still believe in love. I believe in marriage.
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Big stories need human stakes.
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I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.
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I spend an awful lot of time just thinking about what is going on in the world and talking to people about that. It's probably one of my default social activities, just getting dinners with friends.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who dismissed me because of my accent, nor toward the producers and directors who wanted to cast me but thought the audience wouldn't accept my accent. I think they're selling their audience short.
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Broadening and deepening the relationship with our users and advertisers have always been our strategic priority.
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I want to work, but being a mom is my No. 1 priority.
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'SNL' is our main priority because that was our first big break.
