Mike Binder Quotes
I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.
Quotes to Explore
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
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Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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They say women and music should never be dated.
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To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.
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The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
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As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
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When you're on the pop treadmill, you don't always feel that cool because you have to do things to promote the record that aren't necessarily your environment.
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I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.
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We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.
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When I'm on stage, I feel alive. It's the most rewarding feeling an actor can live.
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I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.
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What you need to learn how to do is analyze situations and do differential diagnoses and understand the principle and the concepts rather than learn all the details, and medical school doesn't begin to do that.
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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
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My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it.
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I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.
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Hope is everything. Once you've lost that, you don't really have much.
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I think everything benefits from a little comedy. The worst thing to me is to see a great drama or a great thriller with no laughs.
