Michael Ontkean Quotes
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
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I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.
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An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.
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In India, the investment banking industry is a little different. Overseas, the structures are very complicated, but not in India.
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I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.
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When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
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There may be one or two others that we may rest and they may also be medically linked as well.
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I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only....Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks.
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It is more important to influence people than to impress them.
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I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.
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Oasis were the last great, traditional rock 'n' roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.
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I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our foreign policy is going to lead to changes that will be definitely for the worse, particularly if we drift into a nuclear Iran, which I gather that's what the administration is doing.
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Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends.
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Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and in the consciousness that what we have of good is due to the grace of God.
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I just stepped off the show biz bus and changed gears.
