Michael Tubbs Quotes
Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
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The heart is the best reflective thinker.
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I have the bug again. I'm expecting the response to seeing the show again on Nick to be very good, and this will set the groundwork for what I want to do.
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Five tankers-and the only time I had to put my hand in my pocket was to scratch my balls.
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Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.
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I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.
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You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.
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I don't like losing.
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Uday Chopra is a person who will be a part of my life for the rest of my life. He is the most amazing human being who I have ever met in my entire life - not just in India, but around the world. If anyone is his friend, that person is lucky to have him in his life.
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I recently read a collection of stories called 'Boondock Kollage,' by Regina Bradley. The stories follow multiple characters through the South, through the past and present. I loved reading that book: the first time I read the opening story, I was breathless and incoherent.
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Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.
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I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.
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The Republic will destroy terrorism.
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Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.
