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• Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

  Louis C. K.

  Comedian, Get Better, Actors

  "Louis C.K. Talks LOUIE Season 3, Writing, Directing and Starring in Every Episode, Having Jerry Seinfeld and Robin Williams Guest Star and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2012.

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• I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

  Larry David

  Birthday, Party, Thinking

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. April 22, 1998.

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• Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

  Janice Dickinson

  Liars, Cameras, Fool

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• Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'

  Robert Duvall

  Men, Directors, Sometimes

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• Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'

  Dick Van Dyke

  Kids, Bird, Feelings

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• I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

  Melissa Etheridge

  Stars, Dad, Self Esteem

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• Hey, I'm like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz - I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I'm a coward.

  Paul Feig

  Nice, Dirty, People

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• I think that American presidents, that position in itself, as well as American foreign policy, it has terrorism in it. CIA agents going to overthrow certain governments - they're using terrorist tactics. They're not going in there like, 'Hey, you wanna have some cake?'

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Government, Cia Agents

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• It definitely wasn't like, 'Hey, I'm going to steal that, and nobody's going to know.' The original 'T.R.O.Y.' came out in 1992, and it was like a 20th anniversary kind of thing. All of those intentions were there for it to be resurrecting a classic for a new generation. I tried to honor it.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Honor, Generations, Classic

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• Americans are cool, if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right'. Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.

  Bear Grylls

  Kids, Cynical, Arms

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At the end of the day it's got to be a good movie, it's got to be a funny movie, and it's got to make people think, 'Hey, I couldn't have spent my time any better.'

  Tom Hanks

  Funny, Movie, Thinking

  "The Cast Of ‘Larry Crowne’ Weighs In On Tom Hanks & This Summer’s Anti-Tentpole" by Leah Zak, www.indiewire.com. June 28, 2011.

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• I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative process! That's fantastic!

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Creative, Lazy, Idlers

  "How To Be Idle". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Thinking, Goal, Target

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2006.

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• Some people are a little bit afraid about the future because they see all these gadgets and gizmos coming down the pike and they think they're too old to learn all this new stuff. But eventually they begin to realize, 'Hey, some of this stuff is useful.'

  Michio Kaku

  Thinking, People, Gadgets

  "Physicist Michio Kaku". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 11, 2011.

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• Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.'

  Mindy Kaling

  Boss, Four, Safe

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• Hey, I'm a human being also.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Humans, Human Beings

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• I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted 'Hey! It's Dr. House.'

  Hugh Laurie

  New York, House, Guy

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• I feel like I'm held more accountable to stay healthy now because now I'm a role model to young girls to not have eating issues and to not say, 'Hey, it's OK to starve yourself' or 'It's OK to throw up after your meals' - that's not OK.

  Demi Lovato

  Girl, Issues, Role Models

  "Demi Lovato, at 19, takes control of her own life". Interview With Mesfin Fekadu, www.dailyfreeman.com. October 1, 2011.

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• In L.A., I was meeting people who were all actors. My mind started to open up to what acting was. I didn't realize that Brad Pitt was a real person. I didn't think he was a robot or a machine, but I thought you were just born into acting - that it's a family tree, kind of like NASCAR. No one can just say, 'Hey, I'm going to be a NASCAR driver.'

  Kellan Lutz

  Real, Thinking, People

  Interview With Mark Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'

  Demetri Martin

  Character, Men, Games

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, Comedy, Music, www.imdb.com. January 14, 2007.

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• A lot of people don't like bumper stickers. I don't mind bumper stickers. To me a bumper sticker is a shortcut. It's like a little sign that says 'Hey, let's never hang out.'

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!

  Theresa May

  Men, Issues, Vote

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Sorry, Moving, Doctors

  Jenny McCarthy (2007). “Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism”, p.75, Penguin

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• It is a weird feeling to have people go, 'Hey Chris' like they know me. But, number one, 99 percent of my experiences have been really cool. People couldn't be nicer and more positive.

  Christopher Meloni

  Positive, Numbers, People

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• If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

  Rick Mercer

  Weekend, Nuts, Long

  "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

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