Michael Landes Quotes
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Everyone has hiccups in their families.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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With dance and theatre, I think people get very nervous about not knowing the right things. They feel like they've missed something, or that they're not bright enough to watch it. It's not a test.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.
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When you're involved in those big-budget movies, there's a lot of hype: 'Oh this is gonna be a big hit!' And 'A Christmas Story' wasn't. It came and went and was a big disappointment at the box office.
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
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A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.
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Many a girl who can't dance well makes up for it during intermission.
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As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.
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My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a joke, but it's telling a story.
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I was in the superhero game at the wrong time.
