Michael Symon Quotes
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
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I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.
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I am offered work all the time but not for TV series.
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Entitled people drive me insane. The world owes you nothing! Get over it!
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.
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When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.
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When you spend such a large portion of your life working - and it's not fun, and you're worried about getting sued or fired for saying the wrong thing or for acting crazy at a work party - then what has work done to America? That's the impetus to have a huge office Christmas party.
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Every two weeks, I'd get a small pay-check and notice the line where federal and state income taxes were deducted from my wages. At least as often, our drug-addict neighbor would buy T-bone steaks, which I was too poor to buy for myself but was forced by Uncle Sam to buy for someone else.
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I can feel a something pounding in my brainJust any time that someone speaks your nameTrumpets sound and I hear thunder boomEvery time that you walk in the room.
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Having consulted widely among colleagues, I have concluded that the unity of the Party and the prospects of victory in a General Election would be better served if I stood down to enable Cabinet colleagues to enter the ballot for the leadership. I should like to thank all those in Cabinet and outside who have given me such dedicated support.
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My favorite part on 'Energy Fields,' at the end of the track is a little girl laughing, and to me, it's a child watching the world, her friends, and so-called grownup people, and the way they try to understand the world.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.
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My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.
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If I found out some gal was trying to steal my guy, I'd want to give her a black eye! Instead, I wrote this song. At the time I was writing each song [on this album], you could figure out the frame of mind I was in by listening closely. With every song I've ever recorded, I'm in it. I wouldn't write about it if I wasn't in it.
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My father cried when I said I wanted to be a chef.
