Michael Ian Black Quotes
I was very surprised how many people were earnestly reminiscing about the '80s. It's such a stupid thing to do, like, to be honestly invested in nostalgia. It never even occurred to me to do that.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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You can only do so much theatre.
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To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.
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Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history.
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I don't like concrete jungles.
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I didn't want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.
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The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.
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Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.
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I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming - the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and Internet play, game mods, and so on.
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I've found that most successful people do things because they get personal satisfaction from the work that they do.
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It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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I was very surprised how many people were earnestly reminiscing about the '80s. It's such a stupid thing to do, like, to be honestly invested in nostalgia. It never even occurred to me to do that.
