Michael Imperioli Quotes
I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
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Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.
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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
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Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.
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Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. And then, as they get further on, and you get to 'Spaceballs,' then it's just kind of contrived.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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I have never thought of Angelina Jolie except the last time I saw one of her movies. I think that was years ago. It is so far away from the place I'm in right now to think of think of any celebrity.
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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
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I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.
