Michael Landes Quotes
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I'm not a big traveller.
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I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'
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Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the '70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros.
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I speak from a nerd's perspective because I've been watching anime since I was a kid. I grew up on 'Speed Racer' and 'Star Blazers' and 'Battle of the Planets,' and those were some of my first A) cartoons and B) introduction to Japanese couture before I even knew they were Japanese.
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Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.
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I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.
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My yoga mat comes everywhere. Keeps me stretched out after sitting still on all those planes, trains and road journeys.
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The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither.
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I'm a computer nerd. I'm behind my computer, like, 12 hours a day making new music.
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I would have liked to be a nerd. I didn't even make it to that.
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I did play Jesus in 'Godspell,' in high school, because I guess I'm a nerd.
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I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.
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That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.
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I'm a total nerd. I love comic books and video games and most of all zombies!
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I always feel like an outsider. I'll always feel like the nerd at the party.
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I grew up as a fanboy and a giant nerd, and I mean that in the most loving sense. I loved playing 'Dungeons and Dragons.'
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My initial desire to blog came from something that's always been my approach to investing - I'm a nerd, and I love to play with the technology, and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.
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A nerd will be a nerd all his life.
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When I first started the show, I was known as the 'cop nerd.' I was in the 9th Precinct in the East Village every day. I'd be at work wearing a fake bulletproof vest with foam in it, then I'd leave and put on a real one to ride around with these guys.
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Being from New York, living in L.A., being in Chicago, you kind of get more of the big-city, melting-pot sort of thing. But when you drive through the country, there's so many small pockets of people that don't experience people of different backgrounds. So what they've seen on television is their baseline.
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In five years, North Korea could have 100 nuclear weapons and be churning out more like a fast-food chef with nothing else to keep its economy going. North Korea will peddle them to the highest bidder.
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Life is not a dress rehearsal.
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But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.
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I'm a keen traveller, and I'm a nerd with planes and airports.
