Michael Hastings Quotes
I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.
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I won't allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they've seen lots of pictures of them.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
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The thing about curly hair is that it's a toss-up. Some days you can let it air dry and it's better than a hair-do, but some days you just look like a sloppy person. I'm really resistant to a trim. I only do it when it gets hard to brush out in the shower, then I'll submit, begrudgingly.
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I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.
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As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers.
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'This Is Not That Dawn' is remarkable in part for its careful and sensitive attention to women's lives - and also for its harsh critique of men and their failure to stop violence.
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People expect comedy from me but I am not just a stand-up comedian anymore. I act on stage, host 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' and also conduct interviews on my show. I have grown as a person and an artiste.
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I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
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I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks your imagination. It's a type of microfunding directed toward creators.
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The critical issues here concern what is right, what is just - not the balancing of benefits.
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I know you feel alone, but just look up at the stars, and everything that is out there is what you really are.
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The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
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I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.
