Michael Patrick King Quotes
'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
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You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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One experiments and has to choose always the best results.
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I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.
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I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.
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I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
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There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.
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We are Republicans. But we are Americans first. It is as Americans that we express our concern with the growing confusion that threatens the security and stability of our country.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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Be with people who are travelling to Allah; these should be one’s friends.
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Whoever says that sanctions will only deteriorate the situations of blacks in South Africa does not know the criminal, murderous character of genocide that represents the system of apartheid.
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I am fine playing 'Law & Order' and even the 'Jurassic' movies to be straight up, as far as the characters being portrayed there, but I never want to stay in straight-up land too long. I always wanted to do something where the character's world gets to be explored.
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'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes.
