Michael Mina Quotes
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.
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My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education.
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I want it all - and I would like it delivered.
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We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
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How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?
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But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
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Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.
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May my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if its sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young
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I think actors like to be directed. Actors like to know where they're headed and what they want, so I'm very encouraging.
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My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed.
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If you were the man of my heart, I’d be your wife, not mistress. I don’t share well.
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I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do.
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I don't know if you call a burger recession food. It's comfort food.
