Michael Malone Quotes
There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace.
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
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I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.
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Now I would go to London's Pudding Lane on 2 September 1666 and put out that little fire. I'd love to investigate the histories of a few of the buildings that burned for Restoration Home.
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I'll only move in with my husband. There's no question of a live-in relationship.
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I've learned that no matter what shape you get your body into, if you don't get your head right, you're not going to feel good about yourself.
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I want my films to offer wholesome entertainment and not be my personal showreels.
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Comedy has been so good to me.
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I'm really not feeling one way or the other with comedy or drama, I'm just sort of doing projects that I've been finding really fun to be a part of.
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We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.
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For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.
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There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace.
