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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The running across the field thing, that was the first scene we shot in the movie. We asked the audience to stay for the scene, and 37,000 people stayed.
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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
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It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
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High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
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A show can be completely dead before you even get on the air. I've been privy to a couple of those.
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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.
