Mike Vogel Quotes
I found that inevitably you cannot fit everything that is in that book into what is inevitably going to go on screen.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.
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The school I went to was a little farm school in Wannaska, student body 61 or something. There was a kid, the only black kid in our county, Dustin Byfuglien. He won the Stanley Cup a couple years back with the Blackhawks. Out of a class of 21 kids, he and I always had to be on opposite teams on everything because we were the most athletic.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.
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The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.
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I love satire. Evelyn Waugh is one of my favorite writers of all time. He's hilarious. He's so wicked. He's so great. On the other hand, pure satire is an imitation. It doesn't really have any heart. It only holds things up to ridicule.
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In a just cause it is right to be confident.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.
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I've been on the phone, I think, 20 out of 24 hours the last three days.
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Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it.
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I found that inevitably you cannot fit everything that is in that book into what is inevitably going to go on screen.
