Michael Urie Quotes
Collaboration is when magic is made with more than one person. It's when more than one person finds common ground on the same page. That's collaboration.
Quotes to Explore
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.
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When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what I'm saying?
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I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.
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Once I got to the OTC they knew more about the physical aspects of shooting, and knew which muscles were more important to have trained and geared us a program around that.
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February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.
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As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.
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For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
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The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
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How do we describe the fact of human existence? At a certain point, perhaps, style fails us. Language, even and in particular at its most evocative, becomes less of an aid and more of a difficulty.
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Once I write something, I never try to write that same style again, because I get very schizophrenic musically.
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God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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We share a lot in common, attitude wise.
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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
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Collaboration is when magic is made with more than one person. It's when more than one person finds common ground on the same page. That's collaboration.
