Kate Michelman Quotes
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.
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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
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There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President.
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I like the wrestling and executing the throws. My dad was a wrestler and he showed me some of those techniques, too.
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True love, to me, is when she's the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.
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There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.
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What hath night to do with sleep?
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I just loved being around everybody. We just found a rhythm with each other that you want to get on everything you ever do in your life.
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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.
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Just try to stay a child as long as you can. Don't force into adulthood.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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Beauty is essentially spiritual. The authentic beauty lies in the heart.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home that's no excuse ... Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.
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