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Go Quotes
Quotes on moving forward.
These quotes are about pushing something forward - a producer's refusal to let a project go, and the long chain of approvals a show has to go through before it airs. Related reading includes Back Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything is very expensive in Iceland, so I got some things done in India in the two months I was here. I visited the dentist, the optician, the tailor. When I go home, I'll have a new smile, a new wardrobe, and spectacles.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
- Situation
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always told yogurt had to be sweet to appeal to Americans. But when people go to Turkey or Greece, within 15 minutes of their return, they start talking about how much they enjoyed the yogurt there.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.
- Early
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- Nov 07, 2020
My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums.
- Did
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020