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 only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.
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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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I always felt out of place. I wasn't a cool kid, but I wasn't a nerd, either. I had trouble finding my place. But when I found the music, I had a place of my own.
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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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Over a period of about year-and-a-half, Malcolm X and [Alex] Haley agreed to work with each other. They met usually after a long business day that Malcolm put in very tired. He would get there at about - either at Haley's apartment or they would meet at then Idyllwild Airport at a hotel, and Malcolm would be debriefed by Haley. He would talk, Haley would take notes.
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I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.
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The piano has been my friend all my life; it has always comforted me. Writing songs and sitting down at the piano is not only a business, it's a hobby I enjoy.
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As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God.
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The material world constrain us, often with gret beneficence, to see each person and thing in its time and place, its historical context. But mental life doesn't so constrain us. It is porous, open to air and light, swings forward while swaying back, scatters its stripes in all directions, and delights to find itself beached beside something invented only that morning or instead standing beside an altar from three millennia ago.
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I'm a keen traveller, and I'm a nerd with planes and airports.
