Michael Lee-Chin Quotes
The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
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The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
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I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.
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I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
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Cricket is my first love.
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I like a little bit of a rough look because it's sexy. But when a man has a rough look, and he goes and gets a cleanup, then it's very sexy as well.
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Marriage is a wonderful thing.
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I write what I write.
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Government is not show business.
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Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
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Obviously, I don't live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like there's definitely something to it.
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When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.
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A system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the 'great transformation' on which historians and sociologists as well as business commentators were to write volumes.
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We don't get typhoons in December. They normally end by September. A typhoon happening in October is considered a late event.
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You can forgive yourself a great deal.
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You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?
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I don't think I've ever seen pie advertised. That's how you know it's good. They advertise ice cream and other desserts. They advertise the bejeezus out of yogurt, but I haven't seen one pie commercial.
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I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
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The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.
