Mike Dean Quotes
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'
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I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
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I love outdoor winter activities like snow tubing and snowball throwing.
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I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.
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The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.
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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
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I like to have cookies in the morning before I go swimming.
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I had been going around to everybody saying Katherine Heigl has to be 'Stephanie Plum', and then one day, I got that phone call saying that it was Katherine.
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Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.
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Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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Lots of things should be, but aren't.
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It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.
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I used to play in biker bars, different places like that.
