Michael East Quotes
It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.
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Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
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I don't mean to sound like a touchy-feely California type here, but I knew that I could finally get over the death of my father only by having kids of my own.
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I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?
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It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
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I'd love to drive a Bugatti - something totally ridiculous but super fast.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more.
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I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.
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A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.
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My focus is on my constituents.
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Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.
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It's weird, when I go back to San Francisco, the few times that I've done shows there since leaving, it still feels like I live there. It's very, very strange for me. That's where my daughter was born, at UCSF. I have this huge attachment to San Francisco. It's like a love affair.
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To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.
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It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.
