Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
For 'Paul's Boutique,' we had a lot more money and a lot more time. It was definitely more on our own terms.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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Buildings are forms of performances.
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I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue photographs or handwritten diaries. They can be almost haunted with all this history, and you project onto it and then it gets onto you.
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New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a child or two somewhere.
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Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own people's strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves?
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Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
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It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.
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For 'Paul's Boutique,' we had a lot more money and a lot more time. It was definitely more on our own terms.
