Michael Koryta Quotes
I think pressure can be an incentive toward improvement, and while I'm not denying that I feel some, I will also stress that it is self-inflicted and hopefully can be channeled in a healthy way.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.
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The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment.
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I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
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To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
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I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.
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I eat a bit too much; my teeth aren't perfect; I've got eye bags. I look like a normal 39-year-old woman - but in England, no one minds that.
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
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Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.
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I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.
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There's a greatness in this country many of the kids today don't know.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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I really personalized the pressure to make a good 'Toy Story' film. It made me physically sick at the beginning. Literally, I wanted to throw up in the morning because I was just so racked with stress.
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Even though there are incredible songs floating around Nashville, it's important for me to have my voice heard.
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I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight away, and also you're discussing things on set so it opens it out to everyone and it becomes a totally collaborative thing. And you have someone who supports you when you're feeling a bit insecure.
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I think pressure can be an incentive toward improvement, and while I'm not denying that I feel some, I will also stress that it is self-inflicted and hopefully can be channeled in a healthy way.
