Michael Douglas Quotes
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.
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We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
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I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
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Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.
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When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.
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I spend my money like I don't have anything.
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I've never dyed my hair, never fixed my teeth or gotten a tan.
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Life is never free of contradictions.
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I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.
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They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.
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My understanding is that we are generally a very philanthropic and compassionate people - that when there are disasters in the world, individual citizens send loads of money into appeals for different things. We're a bloody violent people, football fans, and we've been successful at wars, and we sell far too many weapons.
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The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.
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When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.
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He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.
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Never knew how poor I was until I started making money.
