Mike Skinner (Michael Geoffrey Skinner) Quotes
I came to this world with nothing, and I leave with nothing but love. Everything else is just borrowed
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I'm the only gay person my parents know.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.
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I wouldn't mind doing a film revolving around horses, but I wouldn't dilute my equity just sitting on one.
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There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
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Every time I go to big events, it's a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn't really be there.
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But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.
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Quentin Tarantino and Sam Jackson are the reasons I'm an actor.
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I realized that I had the ability to carve out a life for myself, that it was in no way limited by what had already occurred in my past. And that inspired me to go to school.
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Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.
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Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.
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I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.
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I came to this world with nothing, and I leave with nothing but love. Everything else is just borrowed
