Michael Robotham Quotes
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Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.
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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
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I never have written a movie, but there are some bad movies out there. I can make one. I definitely want to get into that because that's how you, at my level, would get a lead in a movie - by writing a low budget thing for myself. So I gotta get to it.
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The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
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Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal.
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You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to become a less distracted, more purposeful investor.
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I secretly want to shave my head.
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I do not want to repeat myself. I want to reach for something I've never attained. This is the excitement of art.
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We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.
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Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
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The mass and majesty of this world, all That carries weight and always weighs the same Lay in the hands of others; they were small And could not hope for help and no help came: What their foes like to do was done, their shame Was all the worst could wish; they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died.
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On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
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I think, regardless of gender, women and men need to be brave, take chances with their work, and be open to feedback. But I do think 'politeness' is an issue that can hinder your work if you aren't careful. Kindness is important, but being overly polite - thinking you can't disagree with someone about your own work - be careful about that.
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Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?
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I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.
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A cow couldn't find its calf in this room.
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My dad always took over teams, except for Washington, that were rebuilding, and you hear the taunting, the jokes, negative, awful things about the person you love. That hardens you at a young age.
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A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good.
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If I become the man you want, I wouldn't be the man I am.
