Michael Ironside Quotes
Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom.
Quotes to Explore
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.
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Being a typical Briton, I love my home comforts and always try and find an English pub where I can tuck into some traditional English food, accompanied by a nice pint. Fortunately, I haven't been ill with food poisoning or anything like that, which is quite surprising considering how many different types of food I eat when I'm travelling.
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I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
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Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.
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The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person – her husband.
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There're a lot of rules to basketball.
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Now, he was filled with a distaste for a civilization in which the individual was so prone and in which he must be so diligent just to preserve his sanity.
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Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative.
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My first walk illegally at 20 years old was between the towers of Notre Dame.
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Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom.
