Michael Pollan Quotes
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I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.
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If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
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Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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Fashion should be playful.
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But I've consistently worked for 10 years.
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My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can't I do that, too?
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Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
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People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.
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Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.
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I'll never put my memoirs in print.
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Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex.
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Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.
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We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.
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From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.
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One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.
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Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?
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If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.
