Valerie Azlynn Quotes
My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
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The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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The U.K. outside of the European Union will end up being a mid-sized economy, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in neither America nor Europe.
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When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old Austria were brought up to respect old people and women. But on our professors we had no mercy; they were our natural enemies. The majority of them were somewhat mentally deranged, and quite a few ended their days as honest-to-God lunatics! . . . I was in particular bad odor with the teachers. I showed not the slightest aptitude for foreign languages - though I might have, had not the teacher been a congenital idiot. I could not bear the sight of him.
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Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting.
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Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.
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In the movies I've done for Sony, they've never given me quadrant specific notes ever. They say "Keep making it. Just make the movie you want to do." Especially in a comedy because comedy is so tone specific.
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My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
