Michael Zaslow Quotes
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I love my work but do not know how I write it.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.
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A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
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What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.
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I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
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I guess I was phenomenally lucky that I was introduced to dancing because I'm suited to it. It would be very weird if you had this natural ability for something and you never discovered it. It must happen all the time.
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A photograph can express silence.
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When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions. I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.
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No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others.
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Cuando todo está hecho, las mañanas son tristes.
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All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.
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As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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The man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
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I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.
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I am not preparing myself or my family for anything but life.
