Mike D (Michael Louis Diamond) Quotes
When you get to a point where you're not beholden to a record company, then it's up to you to say, 'OK, enough knob-turning. We're done.'
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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Growing up in Canada, I dated a few ice hockey players.
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There are, in terms of numbers, more leading roles for women in television than there are features. That's absolutely certain.
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Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged.
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A lot of my inspiration is what straight-size women wear - why is there a disconnect from what they wear and what we can wear?
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The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.
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When you get to a point where you're not beholden to a record company, then it's up to you to say, 'OK, enough knob-turning. We're done.'
