Michael Finkel Quotes
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I am interested in the subject which is Russia.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
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It is not easy for me to digest meat. I waste too much energy in digesting meat, and that's why I get my proteins from other products. I like beans and other legume plants very much. I need a lot of 'live' products such as fruit and vegetables.
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If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.
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There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don't like hair changes unless there's a reason for it. Clothing - I don't like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour - you can wear it again a few weeks later.
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The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
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So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.
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This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.
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If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.
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France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
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Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
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To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
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My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.
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The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was handed me a few days since by Senator Sumner. Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that, while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it.
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I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.
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I committed pretty much the worst thing you can do, which is defraud the readers.
