Michael Lehmann Quotes
In the past, my aspirations were as arty as they could get, and I'm really embarrassed by it.
Quotes to Explore
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.
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The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
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I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.
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We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.
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When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.
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I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately.
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I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
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People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.
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You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.'
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Water is my main state. If I time before I run - like, to digest, like, a good hour and a half or so to digest, I'll eat oatmeal. but I'm a vegetarian for the most part, so in general, I just eat grains and vegetables and fruit.
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We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.
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One of the autobiographies I really liked was Bob Dylan's. It was interesting because he didn't do it in a linear fashion.
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All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.
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I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
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In the past, my aspirations were as arty as they could get, and I'm really embarrassed by it.
