Michael Zaslow Quotes
I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
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The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.
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We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.
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One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.
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Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.
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The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.
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The reason I've gotten into script-writing, which was accidental to begin with, was that I found it was a far more effective medium for violence. Which is something that I'd always written in songs, but the violence always sat strangely within a song. And I was always interested in the way in which you listen to murder ballads and things like that - these weird lines would kind of come out, like, I drug her by the hair or something - that sat weirdly in the song. Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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What did you ASK at school today?
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If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.
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I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.
