Michael Schur Quotes
The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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I am tone deaf.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.
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I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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I didn't like the idea of changing myself for the industry. I felt to have my teeth straightened and bleached and to starve myself to change my body was not respecting who I was.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
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Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.
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When I first started playing golf, I was heavily into softball and basketball.
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One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it became a book, 'I Already Know I Love You.' It was one of those really lovely things in life.
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A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.
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It's the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.'
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Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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Comedians paint ourselves into corners all the time, and tastes in comedy change. The guy in 'The Hangover' was a really fun character to do, and it was easy to do. But you have to find other things because audiences will let you do that for a little bit, and then they're like, 'What else do you have for us, monkey?'
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'Triple Agent' is a different kind of read because it is, at its core, a pure narrative, the story of an intelligence operation that unfolds over the course of a year and then goes badly wrong. There's a lot of 'news' in the book, including an account of drone warfare that is as detailed, in my humble opinion, as any in the open-source arena.
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At 16, every boyfriend I had I was going to marry.
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The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.
