Mike Duke (Michael Terry "Mike" Duke) Quotes
I usually get up between 5:30 and 6. The good news in Bentonville, Arkansas, is I can be in the office seven minutes later. I like to get in, work on e-mails and catch up.
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I just want my films to work. The hit or flop verdict really affects me. I seriously analyse what went wrong if a film turns out to be a dud!
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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After practice, I would have to go back to the dorm and take a nap.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
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I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.
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I love being around my mom and my dad.
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I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.
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When I first signed to RCA, I was sort of excited and shocked that it was happening. But over the next couple of years, it really started to feel like that game you play when you're a little kid - the one where you put your nose on a bat and then spin around and try to walk.
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I think there is room out there to show the grace and dignity of women like Laura Bush.
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As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.
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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
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You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--
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When the desire is born, right away you start counting yourselves a failure, because you've got this desire that hasn't been satisfied. Know that you never get it done! And since you never get it done, it's time to stop being unhappy about what's undone, because most of it is undone! You are an eternal being. Most of it is undone. Instead of taking score about what's been achieved - we want you to start feeling anticipation about what is still to arrive.
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I usually get up between 5:30 and 6. The good news in Bentonville, Arkansas, is I can be in the office seven minutes later. I like to get in, work on e-mails and catch up.
