Conan O'Brien Quotes
The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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A good leader must be fair.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.
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Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.
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The way to get ahead is to start now.
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I've dated people where we traveled horribly together, and if one thing went wrong, it was horrible for them. Then I've been fortunate enough to have great traveling experiences where everything lined up and even when things went wrong, you just laughed about it. You learn so much about yourself when you're traveling with someone.
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It's exciting for me to be home in California where I'm from and to be working with Victoria's Secret.
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The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'
