Michael Tolkin Quotes

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

Michael Tolkin

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• Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Never
  • Economic
  • Been

• The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Star
  • Budget
  • Presentation

• It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Know
  • Best
  • Answer

• I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Think
  • Like
  • Half

• One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Hope
  • Church
  • Singing

• My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Hope
  • Daughter
  • Idea

• I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Want
  • My Life

• I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Genetics

• I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Up
  • Long
  • Fun

• We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and abandon all hope for the future of humanity.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Music
  • Hope

• It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

  

  Douglas Wilson
  • Character
  • Pretty

• I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • People

• More cuts were needed to avoid exiting the eurozone.

  

  Lucas Papademos

• I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • Country
  • Remember

• I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.

  

  Jay Mohr
  • Home
  • Business

• In the name of 'mutual assistance,' the Soviet Union would occupy Latvia until 1991, and it continues to occupy Latvia: in the obedient, epic lines at the post office, in the fug of coal smoke outside cities, in the notorious apartment buildings made of bricks of radioactive compressed ash.

  

  Amity Gaige

• We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education.

  

  Geoffrey Canada
  • Kids
  • Education

• When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood. Jazz is the expression of harmony ... and at the same time of hope and freedom.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Blood
  • Natural
  • Harmony

• If you really think you're right, you should tell it.

  

  Cass Elliot The Mamas & The Papas
  • Thinking
  • Should

• Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

  

  Michael Tolkin
  • Thinking
  • Pasadena