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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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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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 idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid.
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I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
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We were blood brothers, pals forever. He was my very best friend. Nobody else could see him. I now know he was just pretend.
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
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You have countries that have lived beyond their means, with bloated governments, huge trade deficits, and people living off the government. Then you have others where poor people are working hard and underconsuming and their governments are buying all this debt and propping up the extravagant countries. All of this has to change. There's a tremendous moral hazard involved with this system.
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I used to see a lot of cocaine. There were journalists who used cocaine and didn't write about it and I didn't write about it. I would never do drugs, so I would always get the same response from people: "Smart kid, more for me." Whether it was a joke or sincere or both, but I was just happy not to be in there partying with the band like some of these other journalists.
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Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.
