Mike Newell Quotes
I don't like the term 'chick flick.' I think it denigrates a movie. It has overtones of talking down to women, like they are second best.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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I got into rhythmic gymnastics when I was four years old.
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There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
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From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.
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I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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I won't do a role which children in my family cannot look up to.
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Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'
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Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?
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I don't mind other guys seeing movies I want to see and then writing about them. That's fine, especially when it's the New Yorker's Anthony Lane, because he knows this stuff pretty well.
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My best hair care tip would be, choose a range that is right for your hair structure. Working with Pantene has made me realize the importance of this, and it really does make a difference. I have quite thick hair, so I use the Smooth & Sleek range.
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
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Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'
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Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
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Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you’re lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.
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I remember, at MIT, we had to write an essay about something mathematical that you do in your extra time. I basically wrote about how dance, to me, was geometry: it was all shapes.
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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I have an eye for new and refreshing talent.
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I don't like the term 'chick flick.' I think it denigrates a movie. It has overtones of talking down to women, like they are second best.
