Michael Winner Quotes
During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
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I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?
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I choose to express myself.
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Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.
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When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles.
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It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
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Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
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Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.
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It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?
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I suppose one of the challenges of writing the word-side of music these days is trying to decipher and communicate how this planet is very overwhelming at this point. The difficulties we face are overwhelming. It's very difficult to give yourself the time to breathe and appreciate the joy and beauty that might be just right around us.
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I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
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You don't become the character.
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The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.
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I don't really have time to approve every shirt and sticker that gets made but I have been heavily involved in the big stuff like toys.
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As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
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I have to give my wife props on this..3 years of literal blood sweat and tears working on getting mylittle coco right and she’s finally ready for the world to see it!
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During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.
