Mikhail Bulgakov Quotes
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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I'm very open-minded.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
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If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
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My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.
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Youth is truth.
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'Short Term 12' was such a marathon. It's like trying to convey the same emotional depth as 'The Gambler' but with less time and a fingernail's worth of the budget.
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A lot of fans have been requesting that in-your-face song, a sense of feeling empowered. And 'Good Woman' is that: a relatable song celebrating the good woman. I'm also really proud of the third verse, which I wrote.
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You can either look at your career as the things you're going to leave behind, and they have to be executed flawlessly and you have to know exactly what it is that you're doing. Or you can be realistic about the fact that you're going to learn as you practice what you do.
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To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.
