Mika (Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.) Quotes
The one thing about me is that I don’t even know where I’ll end up, and I don’t know what I’ll be doing but I know that I’ll never really stop.
Quotes to Explore
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
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When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna life insurance.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
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What a publication can do is to help people get a clearer picture without jumping to any rash conclusion. I'm very happy that the 'Post' can take the responsibility to report on China in a broader and deeper way. I believe the 'Post' must be fair to our readers. We should let our readers see China from more angles and perspectives.
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When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.
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When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.
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If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.
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I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.
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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
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In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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The one thing about me is that I don’t even know where I’ll end up, and I don’t know what I’ll be doing but I know that I’ll never really stop.
