George Mikes Quotes
Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I am really bad with cleaning my closet.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
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I'm not good at dressing up fancy; I always just do my thing, which is whatever I'm in the mood for.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here.
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Once I turned 40, my whole life changed in the most mature - not boring way but much cooler way. I feel much more like an adult.
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When I was working on 'Big Fan,' I didn't really feel like any lines needed to be changed or enhanced or expanded upon in any way. I thought it was a solid script. All you had to do was what it said.
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success in L.A. is completely arbitrary. One day you're the brilliant genius of life, the next day people act like there's a bad smell when you approach. Lots of expensive, late-model cars are offered in the L.A. Times every day by people who have suddenly begun to smell bad. The stakes are just too high for human dignity.
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
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I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.
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I don't think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world's face. That's all private.
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Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.
