Michael Gove Quotes
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
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What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
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A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.
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It was a double jolt for me. The jolt of seeing my father slowly die, the jolt of knowing that I was diabetic and could meet the same fate if I didn't take care of myself.
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I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out.
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I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.
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Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
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Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.
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I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.
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Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.
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If you are the person who gets the lion's share of attention in good times, guess what: you get the lion's share of attention in bad times.
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The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.
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Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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I have never seen anything like that. It was pretty impressive.
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It is a belief in human potential that has guided me through my time in Government.
