Al Madrigal Quotes

I've always liked and appreciated storytellers like Garry Shandling and Bill Cosby - more long-form comedy. So starting in San Francisco, watching all these great comics - Patton Oswalt, Dave Chappelle - you get to see them a bunch, and you go, 'Wow, this is where I need to be.'

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• The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Long
  • Women
  • Age

• It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Day
  • Telling
  • Grade

• We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Movement
  • Potential

• My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Guy

• I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

  

  J Mascis
  • Great
  • Always
  • Hearing

• Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Long
  • Remember
  • You

• Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
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  • Path
  • Influence

• I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Great
  • Dream
  • Childhood

• It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Long
  • Effort
  • Determination

• It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Employment

• My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.

  

  Ian Mcewan
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• The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • People
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• Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
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  • War

• It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Up
  • Long
  • Real

• I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Life
  • Important
  • Love

• When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
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  • Said
  • Stay Focused

• I think coming from the Northwest is something that's born in your blood. On my mom's side, I'm, like, a sixth-generation Oregonian. My family came over in the covered wagons, 'Oregon Trail'-video-game style. Maybe the pioneer mentality runs in my blood because they were all pioneers.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Family
  • Game
  • Mom

• Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland!

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Me
  • Party
  • Birthday

• My life was always different growing up. I mean, even before the show, my dad was who he is. He's an Olympic athlete. And we were going to premieres, like 'Finding Nemo' premieres, and we would be little kids, like, before the show, walking down the red carpet.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

  

  Jessica Alba
  • Job
  • Celebrity

• Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

  

  Lewis Gordon Pugh
  • Challenge

• I've always liked and appreciated storytellers like Garry Shandling and Bill Cosby - more long-form comedy. So starting in San Francisco, watching all these great comics - Patton Oswalt, Dave Chappelle - you get to see them a bunch, and you go, 'Wow, this is where I need to be.'

  

  Al Madrigal
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  • Comedy