Michael Lee-Chin Quotes
Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the trough that defines you.
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.
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I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.
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We've moved so much, and my life has been so inconsistent.
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It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. That's one of the best parts of my life. I feel like, man, that's one of the greatest things I've got going on, being a father.
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I have seen many teachers in real life, which come from the same background and morality and treat their profession like just another one rather than a noble profession.
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Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.
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I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.
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I say the word death a lot … think of it as … primal relations, opposite, so if I say death a lot, it means I'm concerned with life. It's true.
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And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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I'd really love to play a real-life country and western singer.
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After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.
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I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.
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I would love to host 'Saturday Night Live.' That's one of my goals in life - just putting that out there. I don't know if I'm funny enough, but we'll see.
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I started out doing commercials, like Diet Coke and Pizza Hut. And I started to find there was a different life for me, in a different field. From there, I got a call from a director in Italy, and we did 'Indio' I and II, and that's where it started.
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Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
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It was hard for my friends to equate me with a picture like 'The Omen.'
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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.
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When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
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Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the trough that defines you.
