Mike Stoller Quotes
As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.
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I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
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Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.
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We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.
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I really love 'America's Next Top Model.' I'm always tweeting about it, and people are like, 'You need to get a life!' Any time I do a photo shoot, I always think, 'What would Tyra say?'
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
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It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.
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I had a twin, and he didn't make it.
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I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.
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I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.
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Unless you have a real passion for making movies, then don't bother. I had to carry energy and light into every meeting, only to be told, 'We don't want you.' I couldn't take it personally. You just have to wait, and live for those moments when the casting director likes you.
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For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
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I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.
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It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize before that he was working on his memoirs all along, how he ran for Congress, that sort of thing.
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As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.
