Michael Learned Quotes
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
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I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.
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I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.
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I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.
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I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me. So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.
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Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
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I am not one of those actresses who loves acting.
