![When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity.](/assets/img/quote-photos/when-i-was-growing-up-this-is-spinal-tap-1984-was-the-ultimate-comedy-and-it.jpg)
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I knew I was Chinese, but growing up, it never occurred to me that that had any particular implication or that it should differentiate me in any way. I thought it was a minor detail, like having red hair. David Henry Hwang
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I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.
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I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years. David Hyde Pierce
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If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses. David Brooks
growing-up thinking challenges
I think that if you grow up trying to be the best then you have to be competitive because the more you compete, the more someone is there that is a challenge and the more your performance improves. Arnold Schwarzenegger
growing-up creativity spinal-tap
When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity. Ben Stiller
growing-up reality careers
I had parents who were working actors, who did really well in their careers, but it was a living. So it was a reality for me growing up; it wasn't a fantasy. It wasn't sitting there going, "I want to be adored." It wasn't that at all. Not to say that the screams of fans aren't a smile-raiser, but that was never the pull for me. Benedict Cumberbatch
growing-up baptists robins
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up. Bear Grylls
growing-up experience six-months
After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need. Audrey Tautou
creativity creative mind
All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience. David Hume
creativity creative anxiety
Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within. David Duchovny
creativity ideas mind
It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original. David Brin
creativity thinking input
I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers create within that. August Wilson
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Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Audre Lorde
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Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely toleration, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within the interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters
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The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity. Astro Teller
creativity creating world
God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world. Arthur Peacocke
creativity artist soul
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. Arnold Bennett
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I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing. Matthew McGrory
spinal-tap pilots
I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie. Nina Blackwood
spinal-tap drummer loud
Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap. Cassandra Clare
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I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians. Henry Rollins
spinal-tap littles
There's a little Spinal Tap in all of us. Alice Cooper