Michael F. Easley Quotes
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So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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The moment we finished shooting for 'Bruce Lee,' my wife Upasana reminded of a pending holiday.
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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
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I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
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The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.
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Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.
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Me.
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'I want to know what it says,' he answered, looking steadily in her face. 'The sea Floy, what is it that it keeps on saying?'
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In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
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That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.
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It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.
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A steamer is like an inhaler, so you can inhale this oil or frankincense or eucalyptus. Before I go onstage, I spend half an hour taking in that steam, and it saves my life!
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There's that rule, don't work with kids and animals. There's a reason for that!
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I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.
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The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.
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My mother won't admit it, but I've always been a disappointment to her. Deep down inside, she'll never forgive herself for giving birth to a daughter who refuses to launder aluminium foil and use it over again.
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I basically live in workout clothes.
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Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.
