Michael Paterniti Quotes
When somebody tells you a story, as long as that story lasts, you're caught in this sort of timeless moment.
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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'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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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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I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.
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I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.
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That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.
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Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment.
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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.
