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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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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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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Life is a big craps game. I've got to tell you, it's all been fun.
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The first thing I learned as a producer is that you have very little control over the life of a project. Anything can stall a film from financing to scheduling to casting. Things fall apart all the time. Don't waste time on something that just won't get made. Try to have as many projects going at one time as you can handle.
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To an extreme athlete, there's a certain appeal to doing extreme things - seeking the most extreme physical challenges in some of the most extreme climates in the world. Testing and expanding the limits of human endurance is kind of my thing.
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No one's a virgin, life screws us all!
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I am all about breaking barriers and challenging myself, that is why everything I have done on my resume is different. I have never played a cop again, and I have never played a boxer again since I played Muhammad Ali. That was a challenge, being darker than him, and the film won Best Television Movie and I was a part of that. I was in Mississippi Burning, which won an Oscar.
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I used to play in biker bars, different places like that.
