Michelle Williams Quotes
I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
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I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.
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Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
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We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
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The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
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My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.
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The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.
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Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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We buy a copy of 'Gravity's Rainbow,' say, and we carry our copy home. We open it; we fall into it. And it is here that the word 'copy' fails. Because what I experience when I read 'Gravity's Rainbow,' or 'Beloved,' or 'The Moviegoer,' is not at all a 'copy' of what you experience when you read the same novel.
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You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.
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The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.
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She is trying to control me with fear, because she cannot control me any other way. My eyes open wide. They burn as if they are on fire—no, as if they are made of fire. Eyes are the window to the soul.
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I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.
