Michael Ian Black Quotes
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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.
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I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
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I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.
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Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!
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One of the things that I like about 'Narcos' is that not only Pablo but with all the characters - this is not a black and white show. This is not a regular American cop show where two cool cops go to save a country from a bad guy. All the characters are very complex.
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I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies.
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We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week.
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One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.
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To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.
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I'm a coffee enthusiast. I try not to have too many bad habits.
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I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.
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One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.
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I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
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The British and French governments have taken a strong stance against 'extremist content' online when addressing their approach to tackling extremism.
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If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.
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It was always important to me to be confident and strong with myself. It didn't happen overnight, but I've learned that the only way you can start to control things is if you feel a certain way about yourself.
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I don't think there is any such thing as a black writer or a white writer. Ultimately, there is someone whom one reads.
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The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.
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I think Keira Knightley is amazing, and I've heard also that she is one of the coolest, most down-to-earth, brilliant girls, and I really look up to her in that respect. She's got it all, really, and I think she's made interesting, bold choices in her work.
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My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid.
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I take my coffee like I take my women... strong... black... and proud.
