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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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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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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Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.
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There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.
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Eat turkey all night long, 50 million Elvis fans can't be wrong.
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Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.
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I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.
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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.
