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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I don't talk in ifs.
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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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Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.
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If something produces an undue amount of pleasure or undue amount of displeasure, it's going to be judged differently and it's going to be introduced in your narrative with a different size, with a different development. So that is the next element to superimpose on the sequencing element. And in fact, that element is so powerful that very often it can trump the sequencing event, that the sequencing aspect.
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Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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It was a long time ago: I was 13, and my dad actually sent photos to two different agencies of all of my family, and I had no idea.
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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.
