Michael Mayer Quotes
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I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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When we fought for freedom, for the establishment of a Jewish state, we didn't send a questionnaire to the Jewish nation asking if it wanted a Jewish state.
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The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
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I do have thighs and a butt. I have cellulite.
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Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.
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In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.
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I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
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My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.
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I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting.
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I guess there are two things that make me like songs generally, of ours, and that is if they groove well, or if they have a jam that can go somewhere.
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There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.
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Every job I take, within minutes Im thinking, I cant do this. I think its what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. Its what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted.
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There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
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The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over 'The Wall Street Journal' or the 'Financial Times' and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.
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Life is too short to do anything that's not challenging.
