Michael East Quotes
I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
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Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
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I never go wild with nails.
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I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.
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Utah is America's best place for business because Utahns make it their business to succeed - and we have the track record to prove it.
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I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.
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There were…smiles of encouragement for Lydgate, and some smiles of sweet pity as well, as for the only leper present.
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This band is a real collaboration, and I'm greatful to anybody who can appreciate our music. It doesn't have to be a certain kind of fan or person or anything. I think there's a little bit of something for everybody on this record.
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I want people to feel what it was like in the '40s. That's when popular music in the United States was so beautiful. Frank Sinatra, the Pied Pipers, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Tommy Dorsey, Billie Holiday. That's when popular music had deeper values, to me. This was music that was selling millions of records.
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I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.
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It's become easy for Americans to live in a cocoon of monolithic ideology and thought. It's time to embrace diversity of thought and diversity of experience.
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'Long Black Train' was inspired by a vision that I had of a long, black train running down this track way out in the middle of nowhere. I could see people standing out to the sides of this track watching this train go by. As I was walking, experiencing this vision, I kept asking myself, 'What does this vision mean and what is this train?'
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Suddenly the world has run amok and left you alone and sane behind
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Religion is somewhere between fear and sex. And God? Truly? In his own right, without our voices speaking for him? Obsessed I think, but not passionate. (p.74)
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I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m.
