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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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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Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.
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You must warn people not to make the intellect their God. The intellect knows methods but it seldom knows values, and they come from feeling. If one doesn't play a part in the creative whole, he is not worth being called human. He has betrayed his true purpose.
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Conversations with my mother, father, my grandparents, as I've grown up have obviously driven me towards wanting to try and make a difference as much as possible.
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All too often, it seems, we're willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ.
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Failures are life's way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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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.
