Fred Armisen Quotes

My mom is from Venezuela, and my dad is German and Japanese, and we lived in Brazil when I was a kid for a couple of years, and then I grew up on Long Island. I think all the traveling and all the nationalities put that stuff in my head. I was just around it a lot.

Fred Armisen

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If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.

Meg Tilly

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If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.

Johnnie Cochran

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I get a stack of scripts, like, once a month, and most of the time, you find these placeholder girls that are there to provide a bounce for the male character. So we know he's funny because she's serious and she's mad at him. We know he's strong because she needs saving. So really, her job is to validate this personality trait of our hero or male.

Amber Heard

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I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.

Stan Brakhage

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Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.

Steven Stucky

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I am biased to my show as a whole but it is still very entertaining.

Rob Mariano

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After Silk Route disbanded I came on my own, and through the years, I have sung a few film songs while writing songs for my album.

Mohit Chauhan

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I had no visual imagination as a child. I liked playing football. That was it.

Juergen Teller

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I actually had the good fortune to work with Nick Hoult on 'Mad Max' in Africa, so we became really fast friends.

Josh Helman

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No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get it.

Jonathan Kozol

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My first narrative films developed out of a documentary process - finding someone who was willing to be filmed, watching, listening, taking copious notes and many hours of video footage.

Debra Granik

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I would love to do Doc again, no question. It's tough to come up with an idea that contains the excitement of the original three. So it would be a real challenge for the writers to come up with an original 'Back to the Future' story that has the same passion and intensity and excitement as the other three. But it could be done. You never know.

Christopher Lloyd

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