Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
We're downtown New Yorkers and had very close proximity to the events of September 11th. Like everybody on the island of Manhattan, we were impacted by it in so many ways in terms of what we saw, what we felt, what our daily experience became in the wake of it.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
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I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
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I do not want to be sheriff of Hillsborough County, seriously.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
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I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.
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Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.
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An amazing thing to . . . have that kind of impact on people.
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I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
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We're downtown New Yorkers and had very close proximity to the events of September 11th. Like everybody on the island of Manhattan, we were impacted by it in so many ways in terms of what we saw, what we felt, what our daily experience became in the wake of it.
