Mike Skinner (Michael Geoffrey Skinner) Quotes
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people.
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Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of design.
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I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.
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I had braces for six years! Kids would call me 'big teeth' or 'rabbit teeth.'
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I don't want to be size zero and I'm glad I'm not.
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When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible.
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Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.
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To me, there's no great chef without a great team.
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Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.
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Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.
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The outsider, Haller says, is a self-divided man; being self-divided, his chief desire is to be unified. He is selfish as a man with a lifelong raging toothache.
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The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists.
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People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.
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Everything I do comes from the clubs. If I lose that, I'm done.
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The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I think a great first date would be something different... not like movies or going to dinner... going rock climbing together... doing an activity and then going to dinner, so that you guys share an experience, and then you have something to talk about, and it's not the same old thing.
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An interesting thing about the beginning of our friendship and professional collaboration [with Tina Fey] was that the improve scenes we would do together were basically dramatic and not funny at all.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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Saying “I love you forever” won’t hold us together.
