Michael Gurian Quotes
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
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When I decided to crop what was left of my hair, I thought, 'It's all over. I'm never going to work again: it's basket weaving me for me from now on.' But what actually happens is your casting changes: you suddenly start to get a lot of villains and coppers and soldiers and even the odd sensitive vicar - you become institutionalised.
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It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds
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It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
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We originally proposed to build 60 to 80 rooms.
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It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
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I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.
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Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.
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You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.
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Where I grew up, acting wasn't really accessible. I was just playing sports. But, I did watch a lot of TV. I watched a lot of Clint Eastwood movies on TV and had this fantasy of being like him when I grew up.
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Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.
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Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
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Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,".
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And by the time I reach 38 or 39, I'm asleep.
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I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have never once in my life asked or thanked a reviewer for a review.
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Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.
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First, I worry about climate change. It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it, and make a lot of the other efforts that we're making irrelevant and impossible.
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Without fathers you would have no civilization.
