Michael Eklund Quotes
If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.
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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
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A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
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What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.
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I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.
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One cabbie chastened me by saying that the fashion industry was doing harm to young people, who are trying to live up to an unrealistic ideal. It prompted me to make body image and diversity key issues on 'The Business of Fashion.'
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I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.
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Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
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Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.
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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.
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In any country, in any city, there will be political influence on what is said, what kind of images are to be projected and, yes, of course artists can be and are influenced by politicians.
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If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.
