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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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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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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As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.
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Divorces are made in Heaven.
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You mean, like a book?
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The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.
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I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.
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The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.
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I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
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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.
