Michael Graves Quotes
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
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Expenditures rise to meet income.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
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I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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I can't do anything in moderation.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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I believe women are the glue of everything.
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What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
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When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if there are 20 girls there, it's just unbelievable. The growth of the sport is just incredible.
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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.
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The Swiss can be very difficult.
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I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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I've always been one of those people – once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.
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My favorite project is always the next one.
