Michael Anti Quotes
Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. But also, it gave the Chinese a national public sphere for people to, it's like a training of their citizenship, preparing for future democracy.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.
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I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.
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Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.
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Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
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My mom always told me I could do or be anything I dared to dream, and I always wanted to work in the movie industry.
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New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave.
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I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.
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Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.
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The Hollywood image of the movie business is all about ambition and high achievers like James Cameron. But the British film industry is much more about men who wear cravats and work with model trains and hope another series of 'Thomas the Tank Engine' will be commissioned.
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People need to learn to live with more risk.
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School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.
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Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.
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'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep.
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Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. But also, it gave the Chinese a national public sphere for people to, it's like a training of their citizenship, preparing for future democracy.
