Michael Tolkin Quotes
I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
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The Lakers are family. My kids don't have to switch schools. Little things like that are important. People don't think about things like that. I feel like something special is going to happen in this town.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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I work with a lot of kids. Every year, for the past fifteen years, I work at Comedy Camp where I work with a lot of kids.
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Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
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Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
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Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time.
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The Keystone XL pipeline is a threat to our nation. It would increase pollution and intensify climate change for generations to come. We must raise our voices and demand our leaders reject this dirty scheme.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.
