Michael Pitt Quotes
I think that it's important not to take acting too seriously. It's all pretend. It's a strange job.
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
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Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.
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With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.
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Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.
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First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!
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Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
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People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.
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When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
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The Malagasy people must have the liberty to choose their own future.
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Never before have self-suffiency and education been so important, and they are virtually inseparable from survival.
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Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.
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I think that it's important not to take acting too seriously. It's all pretend. It's a strange job.
