Michael Urie Quotes
I'm not the singer that I wish I was or that some people think I could be. I wish I had the pipes to just jump into musicals.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.
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No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, you'll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not just the name on the door. We have human beings who live and work and serve customers everywhere around the globe.
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There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
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Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
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The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.
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When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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The machine of awards season is very stressful. But this is the Oscars! It's your peers, your heroes, people you admire, the people who inspired you to get into this work in the first place. It's a pretty overwhelming feeling when you think about it.
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The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities.
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I think by and large, humans prefer to think of themselves as minds from the neck up. We don't really like to think of ourselves as another animal, another digesting, excreting, mating, snoring, sleeping kind of sack of guts. I don't think we like that. I think we'd rather not be reminded of it.
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I'm not the singer that I wish I was or that some people think I could be. I wish I had the pipes to just jump into musicals.
