Ingrid Michaelson (Ingrid Ellen Michaelson) Quotes
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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I've served on the International Relations Committee.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.
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My work is through my emotions, so everything kind of goes together.
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Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.
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Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
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I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
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If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the animals interact with each other and with their environment, which means we need to be constantly seeking new and improved methods for exploration and observation.
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The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.
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Even though you were once a goddess, Kalidasa’s heaven was only an illusion.
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The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that's what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.
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I don't know why I ever succumbed to any of it... but I liked the rush of going under. It's such a high-it's like dying. I die, but then I come out prettier.
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Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it.
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Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people.
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The body should be reconfigured by the clothes, never again the other way round.
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I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.
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I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.
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Dedication to quality, community, and originality without exception.
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The day that I saw Whoopi Goldberg on television, I cried so hard because I kept looking at my daddy going, 'Oh my God. There's somebody on TV that looks like me! She looks like me! Yay! I can be on TV! I can be on TV! I can do it! Look at her - look at her! She looks just like me.'
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As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Happy is the Heart that still feels Pain
