Michael Graves Quotes
Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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In 1994, when I came to PepsiCo, there were really three businesses. They were soft drinks, which included both bottling and the concentrate company. There were salted snacks - Frito Lay. And restaurants where we had, we all talk of them, Pizza Hut, KFC and a whole bunch of casual dining chains.
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I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
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Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.
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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
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I remember the first time I heard 'The Thunder Rolls.' It was dark, and we were driving to the beach. There was the thunder outside and the thunder in the song. It was eerie.
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At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.
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The most I can do is to go as far as I can, writing my own story in the dust with my two feet, word for word.
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I believe we are more a product of our homes than of any other single influence.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.
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Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.
