Michael Michele Quotes
My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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I often reread books I have written.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.
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All you would hear every night on the news was that somebody had been shot dead in a certain part of Belfast. We lived opposite a judge, and there were always soldiers crouched down in our garden. We'd sit and talk to them, and I even used to sing to them!
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I have been vain since birth.
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In film, I don't think I'd try directing. Maybe one day, but I'd certainly want to go to film school or something before I tried to do something like that. That would be quite scary.
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It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.
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I always give respect to and pay homage to New York, because I don't feel like I would be the player that I am today if it wasn't for New York City. It gives you a certain edge, a certain toughness just growing up in the city.
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My books are easy to read. No folderol.
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My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.
