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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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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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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I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'
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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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I don't think enough players channel the energy of the crowd. If it's done properly, and you don't let anger overwhelm and distract you, it's like a shot of adrenaline in the arm, and it gets the crowd pumped up.
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I'm not really into musicals.
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Much of God's will for your life is already found in the Bible.
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We cannot and should not stop people from migration. We have to give them a better life at home. Migration is a process, not a problem.
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It is a belief in human potential that has guided me through my time in Government.
