Michael Hirst Quotes
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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I've dealt with a lot in my life.
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The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.
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I don't like possessions.
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The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.
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I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.
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Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.
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I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.
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Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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Nobody really knows anything. Right now, we're just all praying for him and hoping everything turns out for the best.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I think if you're not offending somebody somewhere, then your show is probably just very bland and boring.
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Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.
