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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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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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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Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.
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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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Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.
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Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion.
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I'm from Europe, and I was very aware that there are a lot of literature snobs - especially in Europe. As soon as something becomes a success, it has to be bad, and then they'll do everything they can to stab it to death.
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You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.
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You can believe in Fung Shui if you want, but ultimately people control their own fate. The most important thing is to improve yourself and give it your best. Then many things previously thought to be impossible will become possible.
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It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.
