Michael Gove Quotes
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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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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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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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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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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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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I like to indulge all the facets of my personality. There's none that I don't think, in a way, I would want to take away from.
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Regardless of the cultural system, social pressure to appear straight seems to be fairly intense cross-culturally. Indeed, one is inclined to wonder, if being straight is just natural, why does it require quite so much policing?
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I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan.
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After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.
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I remember the first time I spoke to an editor. I thought I'd be sick, I was so nervous. The first time I spoke to a large group at a conference, I had the jitters for days beforehand.
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It is a belief in human potential that has guided me through my time in Government.
