Michelle Shocked Quotes
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.
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I know it's silly, but I still think I'm 28.
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I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.
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I haven't checked this out yet, but one of our guys told me we have a counselor within 45 minutes to an hour of most small businesses in this country. That's really powerful. I call it our bone structure.
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Waka Flocka is a product, a franchise, a brand, a label... And a good guy!
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I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.
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I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!
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The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
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According to the management expert Peter F. Drucker, the term "entrepreneur" (from the French, meaning "one who takes into hand") was introduced two centuries ago by the French economist Jean-Baptiste Say to characterize a special economic actor-not someone who simply opens a business, but someone who "shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield." The twentieth-century growth economist Joseph A. Schumpeter characterized the entrepreneur as the source of the "creative destruction" necessary for major economic advances.
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After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.
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If I have a golden touch, I'd also say that I have the opposite of whatever a golden touch is, because I've had a lot of things fail. I think part of the experience of being successful is that you have to have a lot of stuff not work.
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Today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation. It's time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and work to restore America's place as the world leader in science and technology.
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Music is too important to be left to professionals.
