Mike Conaway Quotes
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
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I think my blog is fairly circumspect and elliptical. I've written personal essays, but they are short and to the point: in and out, and that's that.
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Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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I have only had positive interactions in relation to my impressions of people, which I'm happy because I do them with love, and I hope that the people who I do them of really like them.
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I did plays in high school, and I usually got cast in the comic role, which I really enjoyed.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
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I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.
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They have to pay people competitive wages and competitive benefits.
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For many years I thought, "Well, I need to know a lot more to direct." But I looked around and watched all the people I know directing and thought, "No. I just need to know what I want it to be." Then there will be a lot of people to help me get it to there, especially Bobby Bukowski, he's a brilliant cinematographer.
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People try to do better than other people. It's an incentive.
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People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.
