Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
Nastassja Kinski -
The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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When I began 'All Our Names,' I did so wanting to create parallel narratives between Africa in the nineteen-seventies and America during that same period.
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I've always been good at refocusing my attention away from something that was bringing me down.
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I don't even know what my favourite food is anymore, as they are all such bad foods!
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Football helped me with confidence that I needed. It gave me a sense of independence and earning my own money and my own keep. That's what it served. It gave me the strength to be able to deal with rejection, politics, hard work, and being introduced to pain and embracing what's uncomfortable.
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Walking out into the bush still feels the same as when I first came to Kenya in 1989, on the day the Berlin Wall came down.
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Food was always a focus for us, lyrically.
