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Lorne Michaels Quotes

I'm incredibly proud of the show 'Portlandia' that I do, but it's designed for an audience that just wants that and loves that.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: producer
Nationality: canadian
Birth: November 17, 1944

Topics

Proud Audience Show Just Wants

Just taking care of yourself is a job of its own.

Job Yourself Care Own Just Taking

I'm convinced that the earth is much stronger than us.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Stronger Earth Us Than Convinced

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

Character Great People Ideas Start

Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.

Crazy Gangster Revolution Village

When I graduated from Brown after majoring in women's studies, I made my first PBS documentary, 'Women of Substance.' My first feature documentary was called 'American Hollow,' which I did for HBO and was at the Sundance Film Festival.

Women American First Film Made Did

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

Michelle Shocked

Music Myself World End Look Career

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren't worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Day Effort Worth Every Day Go Upset

The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of meat or seafood, Creole is a vague and inclusive term for native New Orleanians, who may be black or white, depending on whom you're asking.

Black You White New Kind Meat

I like having my cellphone. I like the Internet. I like being different.

Being Different Internet Different

You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.

Funny You Teach Somebody Either How

There's good cops and bad cops, and the good cops have to hold the bad cops accountable. We have to hold the bad cops accountable, too.

Good Bad Hold Cops Accountable Too

While it's trendy to outsource your accounting to a third party, once you hit a certain size, it's dangerous.

Accounting You Party Dangerous Size

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