Michael Ian Black Quotes
As an actor, you can show up on a set and be on a TV show for three or four years, or whatever it is and, by the end of it, you just want to do something else.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
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We rarely grow when we're happy, we grow when we hurt.
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It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.
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I want a girlfriend who eats as much as I do, which is a lot.
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Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.
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I talk openly about my past and what I've gone through - abuse being something that was very real in my household, and a lot of chaos growing up as a child. I think that I naturally just gravitated towards music that I could really feel on a deep level - and that meant sadness. I was able to connect with that at a really young age.
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God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.
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A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
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Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
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My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.
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Anybody who cannot learn to hear by feeling will not go very far in church.
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Britain needs a real push. It needs nationalism. The sort of spirit that comes during a war. It needs people really to want to see the UK sitting again, maybe not as a colonial power, but as an economic power.
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I do believe in women. I really do.
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Tomorrow when you come to work, if it doesn't make the customer happy, move the business forward, and save us money - don't do it.
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Because of the tax on being different, individual actors in the labour market from different backgrounds can rationally value the same opportunities differently.
