Mike Rogers Quotes
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six, and the only thing that's going to keep you sane is if you give back and live your life. I've definitely gone through that. It's like, 'Okay, I'm out of work for two months.' That's two months I can paint.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.
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Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
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My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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To Africanize colonial and capitalist power would destroy the meaning of our struggle.
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A penny for the Old Guy
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The will of the people is the best law.
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Humans have spent (10k+) years learning to fight and debate with the other side, and almost no time learning to listen and empathize.
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The pursuit of wealth generally diverts men of great talents and strong passions from the pursuit of power; and it frequently happens that a man does not undertake to direct the fortunes of the state until he has shown himself incompetent to conduct his own.
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All that Christ did and suffered would have been necessary had only one human soul been the object of redemption; and nothing different and nothing more would have been required had every child of Adam been saved through his blood.
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As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again.
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Something I've learned being in this industry for so long is that if you want to work with somebody, call them up. Very few musicians have any illusions about genre boundaries. They are useful descriptive terms, but they don't really bind musicians.
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I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.
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I'm not going anywhere. I will be here for a very long time.
