Michael De Luca Quotes
I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.
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I like a film that makes the audience feel like they are in the middle of life as it is moving, and in a way, they are catching up. They are thrown into things.
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If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.
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Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.
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I don't like looking outrageous.
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There is no other language as similar to Hebrew like Arabic.
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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
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Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend.
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If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
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I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.
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You know, there's a great saying in Texas - you've all heard it - all hat and no cattle. Well, after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and a lot more cattle.
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The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven through New Orleans on tour and I'd been told my great grandfather had lived way back up in the woods among the evergreens in a log cabin. I revived the era with a song about a coloured boy named Johnny B. Goode. My first thought was to make his life follow as my own had come along, but I thought it would seem biased to white fans to say 'coloured boy' and changed it to 'country boy'.
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I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.
