Michael Flanders Quotes
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
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I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.
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I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
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What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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Music fills the infinite between two souls.
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We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.
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Economic recovery begins with our small businesses.
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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
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I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.
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The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?
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From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.
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The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.
