Michael Hintze Quotes
I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
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I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
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Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
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It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.
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I don't like concrete jungles.
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I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.
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I tend to be overly responsible for other people's feelings.
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I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.
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It's emotional highs and lows in the game of golf.
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I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.
