Michael Finkel Quotes
In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet - with all my favorite elements of literature: a sense of flow, of propulsion, of wanting to read every sentence.
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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Owning a variety of asset classes means that some part of your portfolio will be doing well when the cyclical turmoil arises. A broadly diversified portfolio includes large capitalization stocks, small cap, emerging markets, fixed income, real estate and commodities.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
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I'm currently working on a romantic comedy between me and Philip Seymour Hoffman. So my next step is to write something so mind-blowingly spectacular that he has no other choice but to agree to do it! Wish me luck.
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I'm LeBron, baby. I can play on this level. I got some game.
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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
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Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.
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Currently I'm not a crazy ex-girlfriend, but I can't promise I won't be one again.
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What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.
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Of course there's racism in this country, and we have a terrible history of that in this nation.
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If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make a living doing it, but theater is about meeting an audience. Plays are not easier to write necessarily, they take less time to write. If you get them up, it's a much more rough-and-tumble kind of existence. I think it's, from my perspective, easier than novel writing.
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Writing is a little athletic for me. I get worked up a little bit when I do it. So I guess I'm a little bit like that composer conducting. There are a lot of things that go into what I do, but I think athletics really sort of shaped my ethic.
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Outside, the trees do their witchy dance.
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In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet - with all my favorite elements of literature: a sense of flow, of propulsion, of wanting to read every sentence.
