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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'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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I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
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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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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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Our stories are different; our pain is the same.
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'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is just one of those movies that's like a page of history. You can't really go wrong. It's a prequel. It's not like number three. Which is really cool, to be the before as opposed to the after.
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Food is so heavily connected to memory.
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I have to look at myself in the mirror and tell myself that I'm beautiful, even if I don't necessarily believe it.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.
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When I was in the Army, 100 percent of our effort was to really be sharp, and soldiers, we were under live fire all the time.
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Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
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It wasn't easy in the 1970s when I initially started on my mission - to take yoga to the world. Nobody knew what it was in Japan. When I met Bill Clinton for the first time, he asked me if it was a form of yogurt that you eat! But I kept my faith and never gave up on my quest.
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It is a belief in human potential that has guided me through my time in Government.
