David Michod Quotes
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.
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If you have a character stand up and put on her shoes and open the door, in order to do that, you're imagining her shoes and her clothes and her house and her door. The character becomes more real. But once you've done that, you can probably just get it all across with a couple of details.
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When the Walkman was the craze in my generation, I was one of the first to have it.
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The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such things are happening, and often, if they have a vague idea they are happening, there is a feeling that there is nothing that can be done to stop these crimes.
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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
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You can have levity in the film because real people look for levity in their lives.
