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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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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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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You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.
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The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of 'judicial activism' - of judges using the Constitution to strike down laws passed by the elected branches of government. If they are true to those principles, they should uphold rent control.
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There aren't that many people who have written seven-book series, taken them 17 years. Actually finishing was (the) most remarkable feeling I've ever had. (I) couldn't tell you which was uppermost - euphoria or feeling devastated.
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged! Kill every German - wipe them out!
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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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.
