Michael Ian Black Quotes
Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic, but don't give it more attention than it deserves.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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I believe in doing what I am best at.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
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The nurses were all angels in my eyes.
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It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.
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I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.
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'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.
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I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.
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Goya, Miró, Matisse, Bosch and Klee.
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I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.
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God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.
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I don't feel as if I have to force anything. I just have to play my game.
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There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I'm just really excited about. There seems to be a big gap between the generation above and us; it seems to be quite radically different in terms of form and approach.
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All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.
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Sadness... reflecting on the proud legacy of trust and fair play on which Reliance Industries was founded by my visionary father Dhirubhai Ambani, and how far RIL appeared to have moved away from those original values.
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I'm not a girl who started getting into music and using my femininity to get attention. When I was getting into it, it was all pure skill.
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Prostitutes dress obviously, so as to draw attention. It's their business, isn't it? The last thing that a Christian woman is thinking of is being like a prostitute.
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Let us, using our double vision, travel two worlds in one and forma single double songthat splashes out in ripplesof thought and bloodthat eddy, wrinkle and wakethrough the double skiesof our single universe, and breakinto rainbow vowels that singsoft lullabies,and fall as lightin both our worlds.
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A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.
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Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic, but don't give it more attention than it deserves.
