Michael Chabon Quotes
Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.
Quotes to Explore
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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I'm not looking to shock anyone.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too.
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Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival, you know you are going to be criticised. I have no problem with the fact that I expose myself and the movie, and it's normal that I can disagree with the way some people feel.
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There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.
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Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
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What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. They are characters. It's so refreshing. They're playing different kinds of characters, and they aren't being typecast.
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We just have to remember that we're all in this together and that we all want our state, and our country, to succeed.
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I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.
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A man without money is a bow without an arrow.
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Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.
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Climate change is real.
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I can't say I'd like to concentrate on one particular composer. I'm looking forward to doing a variety.
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'Batman' was a colorful and wild ride.
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Big game hunters and the hunting industry in South Africa know a lot of people regard what they do as terrible, and the media have tended not to do them any favours. So it was an uphill struggle to win trust from the people and to get into the world.
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The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.
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Must stop. This ink is amazing, it really doesn't smear, even when you cry on it.
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Sometimes I have a little social anxiety, and meeting people can be a challenge for me.
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I believe every person has within themselves inexhaustible reserves of potential they have never even come close to realizing.
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Only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.
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Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.
