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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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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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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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity - of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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I always thought of myself as being part of a family and sharing and, yes, leading, but not forcing people to do anything.
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As an actor, these kinds of big-comedic-centerpiece characters is just one thing that I love to do.
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It's taken my entire life to negotiate how to identify, and I've done a lot of research and a lot of studying, i could have a long conversation, an academic conversation about that. I don't know. I just feel like I didn't mislead anybody; I didn't deceive anybody.
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As I traveled, talking about these issues, I met so many young people who had lost hope. Some were depressed; some were apathetic; some were angry and violent. And when I talked to them, they all more or less felt this way because we had compromised their future and the world of tomorrow was not going to sustain their great-grandchildren.
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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.
