Michael Welch Quotes
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do, every day, and we need to know how to do it.
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However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.
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People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay.
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Most victims of ISIL are, in fact, Muslims. So it seems to me that to refer to ISIL as occupying any part of the Islamic theology is playing on a - a battlefield that they would like us to be on. I think that to call them - to call them some form of Islam gives the group more dignity than it deserves, frankly.
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I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever.
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Lynch is not as strange as his films. He's a complex guy with a very interesting view of the world. But he's very accessible, with a good heart.
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The power to investigate is a great public trust.
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My dream was to have a garage where I could put some of the coolest cars I've ever seen throughout my life.
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Music has always been a part of my life.
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You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.
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I'm so used to America, used to the traffic in L.A., and I don't really feel it click with the Korean culture. But obviously, I have a Korean face, and I feel like that's just - you know, I can't walk around people like I'm, like, straight-up American. It's like, I'm Korean American. My parents are from Korea.
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I was a cute kid.
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For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work.
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The reason I think we hold films like 'The Sixth Sense' and 'Citizen Kane' in such high regard is those are movies that were amplified by their twists but were already bringing the goods.
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I went seven years between 2002 and 2009 without winning. Then I did win in '09.
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My mother's side of the family, they're from Montserrat in the Leeward Islands.
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I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.
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When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
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I got a chance to work with so many stalwarts from British cinema. Judi Dench, of course, who is a legend. Then there was my director Stephen Frears. He is the man who made some of British cinema's salient trendsetters.
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I can't think of anything I can't stand the taste of less than brussels sprouts.
