Brigitte Michael Sumner (Mickey Sumner) Quotes
I've definitely been in relationships with friends where I wanted to do something different than I know a friend has. It's that complicated balance between wanting to do what you know is right for you and not wanting to hurt someone's feelings. I think that's a part of growing up.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.
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Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
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If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.
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I have a hyper personality.
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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.
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My initial training was on the keyboard - mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during the day, I was a classical clarinetist, but after school, I played New Orleans jazz and big-band music.
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With Yale, my world got so big all of a sudden. At school, if you could dream it, someone would make it so that you could do it. It was magical. I had a lot going on, as you do when you're 17, and didn't necessarily capitalize on all of it, but it made me see possibility in a way that I hadn't before.
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My interest in theatre and storytelling began in my mother's kitchen. It was a meeting place for my mother's large circle of friends.
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But I love singing, and I've been singing backup for friends' bands.
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I've definitely been in relationships with friends where I wanted to do something different than I know a friend has. It's that complicated balance between wanting to do what you know is right for you and not wanting to hurt someone's feelings. I think that's a part of growing up.
