Michael De Luca Quotes
Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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Only heroes get stereotyped. As they do the same kind of roles again and again.
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If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
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The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.
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The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.
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I like lowriders and music from the '50s and '60s. A lot of people assumed I was Mexican.
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There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.
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There's no point daydreaming about what you want to play, because there might never be a script with that part in.
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Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person.
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My goodness, the Democrats have just become the party of punishment, and they are carrying that to the extreme when it comes to health care.
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But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.
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It's useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us.
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'Khalifa' is Arabic, it means successor, leader, shining light. My granddad is Muslim and he gave me that name.
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The majority of Afghans do not see the Americans as foreign occupiers who must be defeated. Instead, they are hungry for the Americans to step up and help them make their country safer, their government cleaner and their economy stronger. They are disappointed because the international community has done too little, not too much.
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Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.
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Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.
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You're playing touch-butt with that dork in park, the pony tail.
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A house full of new furniture doesn't mean a whole lot.
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Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.
