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'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 whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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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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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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There's several ways to be a journalist. One way is to be combative and take the person to task and what you have is a portrait of somebody defending themselves, which is interesting. The other thing is to slip into their world and really be a representative for all the people that love the experience of that artist, and have them get so comfortable that you become invisible and they're themselves.
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Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.
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It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else.
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I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.
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We came out flat in the third quarter. I think we thought it was OK to play them a good half.
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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.
