Michael Douglas Quotes
I've gotten burnt the last few years on a couple of little independent films where you get paid nothing, you work your ass off, there's no marketing budget except you going on every talk show. But you're seeing it all over. I mean, these disasters at NBC, with the morning show.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
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'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.
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Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.
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Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.
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When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.
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Even though you picture Russians as stoic, their language is really poetic.
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You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
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I've gotten burnt the last few years on a couple of little independent films where you get paid nothing, you work your ass off, there's no marketing budget except you going on every talk show. But you're seeing it all over. I mean, these disasters at NBC, with the morning show.
