John Michael Higgins Quotes
I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.
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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
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Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.
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Language usage always has a political context.
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I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.
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In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
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I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.
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There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together.
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I know I am not the first woman to ask this, but how can I be both damaged and loveable? How do I become the protagonist of a story?
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I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.
