Michael Socha Quotes
The thing is, with 'This Is England', you're always thinking as yourself. You're acting on an instinct. You're acting on what you've heard, what you've been told, and what's happened beforehand.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.
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Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.
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I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.
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I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
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Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.
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Lunch is for wimps.
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All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida.
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I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
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'Dark Gods,' T. E. D. Klein's book of four novellas, felt like a godsend - even if it came from a deformed god, one that lurked beneath our sidewalks.
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The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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The thing is, with 'This Is England', you're always thinking as yourself. You're acting on an instinct. You're acting on what you've heard, what you've been told, and what's happened beforehand.
