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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If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.
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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.
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I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.
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There's a big difference between industrializing production of tractors and industrializing production of food. We like technology, but we really like technology that allows us to do better what nature does itself.
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When we talk career, we get into an argument. In Hindi films, she is facing the same problems I did. If a K. Balachander hadn't come along to do 'Ek Duuje Ke Liye' with me in Hindi, I wonder what would've happened to me! I would have suffered much worse because Shruti is far more savvy than me.
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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.
