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.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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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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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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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 you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.
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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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As soon as you get traded, you kind of start thinking where you're going to live, your family, you have to pack.
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I tried to talk to the graduates who haven't figured what they're going to do next. The kids who are heading in medical school or law school, they've got pretty much figured where they're headed in life. But there are so many kids out there, that are just going, they're still kids. They've always been promoted from grade to grade.
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My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.
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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.
