Michael Douglas Quotes
I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
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As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.
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The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.
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There are so many factors that go into directing. It's honestly a logistical nightmare for a lead to direct themselves in an episode.
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In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
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Sometimes you've got to make your work and workouts co-exist.
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We're living in extraordinary times, all the time. The issues that assail us are perennial. They haven't changed since the Greeks picked up a pen.
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We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.
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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
