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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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
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And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.
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Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.
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It was a fear we had when we started 'Legion,' that there were too many comic-book series out there, and how do you stand out. Our mandate always is to make something different in feel and tone. You try to avoid someone thinking, 'Gee, I've seen this before.'
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I used to play in biker bars, different places like that.
