Michael Masser Quotes
People simply learn to process information to the point where it doesn't serve true creativity.
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The world needs some help.
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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
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One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.
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I find Denver's hipster scene to be fully unique.
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My only personal time is a couple of hours in the gym in the morning.
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In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, 'Damn, that's a pop song!' I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people.
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The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
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If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
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A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.
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The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
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My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.
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I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.
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Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
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I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as a foreign service officer with the Department of State. The government in Saigon was at the point of collapse and the [Lyndon] Johnson administration was preparing to send U.S. combat troops to prevent a communist victory there. I became convinced that the U.S. effort would not succeed because of the lack of conviction in the Saigon government compared to the discipline and sense of self-sacrifice among the Viet Cong.
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The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.
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If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.
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People simply learn to process information to the point where it doesn't serve true creativity.
