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'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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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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I'm an affectionate person.
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I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.
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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.
