Michael Paterniti Quotes
When somebody tells you a story, as long as that story lasts, you're caught in this sort of timeless moment.
Quotes to Explore
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
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To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
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I'm not a leading man.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.
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People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
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Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
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When we think of God, we are apt to think of Him in human form. In the Epiphanies of the Old Testament God revealed Himself to Joshua and others in human form. He puts Himself within the compass of our highest conception, in order that He may make Himself real to us in His love and sympathy and power.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
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How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?
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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
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When somebody tells you a story, as long as that story lasts, you're caught in this sort of timeless moment.
