Michael Potts Quotes
If you had asked me when I was in Yale, I would tell you I never would have thought it would happen because I just didn't think of myself of having the Hollywood look.
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great writing. If there's something about the script, that's what I go for, although I know that that doesn't always translate because sometimes it's about the vision of the director.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.
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The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.
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The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
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If you had asked me when I was in Yale, I would tell you I never would have thought it would happen because I just didn't think of myself of having the Hollywood look.
