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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There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like 'Down to the Bone,' you have the opportunity to be of service.
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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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I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.
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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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
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It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.
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Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help," snarled Ron, leaning back, trying to stop the plant from curling around his neck.
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You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time when I read 'The Girl on the Train,' it wasn't like I was, 'Ooh, I want to play a hot mess next.'
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I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'
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The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.
