Michael Rapaport Quotes
I don't want to misrepresent who I am personally. I don't want my kids to see me on a talk show and say, "You're talking different" or "You look different, dad." I'm not gonna be an animal; I know how to conduct myself.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
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My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.
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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
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Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.
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Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
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Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.
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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.
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A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.
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I don't want to misrepresent who I am personally. I don't want my kids to see me on a talk show and say, "You're talking different" or "You look different, dad." I'm not gonna be an animal; I know how to conduct myself.
