Blake Michael Quotes
I've done a movie called 'Lemonade Mouth' for Disney Channel, which was fun to do. I actually got discovered through an open casting call where anyone could audition.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I love working with women.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.
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I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.
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You have to have somebody to root for. I truly believe that's how you ground a movie. You ground them in the characters.
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One of the fun things about being an actor is stepping outside yourself and outside of your own experience. It's challenging yourself to totally commit to something that in your core is so wrong.
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For movies, I usually do an entire book that has all kinds of things about what is happening at the time the movie is going on and try to get into what my character's going to be like, to try to get some consistency, because they shoot movies out of order.
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I've done a movie called 'Lemonade Mouth' for Disney Channel, which was fun to do. I actually got discovered through an open casting call where anyone could audition.
