Michael Ironside Quotes
Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom.
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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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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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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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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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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've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.
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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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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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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 am a fiscal conservative.
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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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I love Instagram. I find it to be one of the truly positive social media things that exist.
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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
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Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
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Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom.
