Michael Oher Quotes
Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.
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This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.
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Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.
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Morally relevant emotions are essential for living in social groups and they provide the basis on which we may construct conceptual frameworks that help guide our actions, but human beings should more accurately be thought of as being endowed with morally relevant capacities rather than innate moral knowledge.
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There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
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Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
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We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most.
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From doing Power Station, it was like, it's the same guys, but it doesn't sound like them. When we were in Duran, the labels and management wanted more Duran stuff so they could sell it.
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I'm not sure the people who are voting for Trump want to be pulled together with the people who are voting for Clinton and vice versa.
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I don't want to have to look good all the time - that's not realistic.
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I'm confident with my ability.
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I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.
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I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
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You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.
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The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.
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There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.
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Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter.
