Kay Cannon Quotes

When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning.

Kay Cannon

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There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.

Joey Lauren Adams

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At some point in the past, it was decided that women in comedy are never supposed to be shown in an unflattering light. But in comedy, you need all of your tools to be funny.

Melissa McCarthy

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I think you could argue that President Obama could have watched a little cable news... I do think that there is value in understanding where the conversation is and having a little less detachment where the popular conversation is.

Jeff Zucker

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I'm an optimistic guy.

Michael Douglas

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'Black Watch' has taken its place in the canon of Scottish theatre, and that's fantastic. It's a very particular kind of theatre. It's about the music, the movement, the whole 'event' of it.

John Tiffany

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Pain is the root of knowledge.

Simone Veil

KnowledgePainRoot

Every trip I made to Atlanta was crucial because it was so hard to get away from family and church duties.

Trip Lee

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I've inherited a kind of... willfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.

Tony Goldwyn

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If I could go, I would tell the truth to the North American people. President Reagan personally ordered my visa to be denied.

Tomas Borge

TruthPeopleAmericanGoPresident

We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.

Jay Weatherill

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In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.

Jay Dratler

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Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.

Deborah Eisenberg

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