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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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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When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.
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I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
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My father was short for a man, with a child's plaything for a name - Spinner. He had flawless dark brown skin and a head full of big, wet-looking curls, black as oil. And he had the smile of a scoundrel - the kind of smile that disarmed men and undressed women.
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It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.
