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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Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.
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Acting is acting, and who you are will still remain to be who you are. You know, that part won't change it. It will change your wallet, you know? It'll change your life. It will open opportunities for you, but it's not going to change your character.
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Singing, 'Here came a mortal, But faithless was she: And alone dwell for ever The kings of the sea.'
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In Tagalog, we call undocumented people 'TNT,' which means tago ng tago, which means 'hiding and hiding.' So that's literally what undocumented means in Tagalog. And that kind of tells you how Filipinos think of this issue, and really any culture, right?
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Virtual reality is a truly immersive medium and the level of graphics, already quite strong, will only continue to get better and better. You really feel like you are someplace else...and what you see, what you experience, it impacts your brain. So there are major implications here, to societal structure, to democracy to the way in which we interact with each other. To the nature of love, to the nature of sexuality.
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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.
