Michael Gudinski (Michael Solomon Gudinsk) Quotes
When an artist gets the chance to have the media sunshine on them, they’ve got to take advantage of it.
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I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.
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A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.
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I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
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As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.
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Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
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I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
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I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved.
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I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.
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If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.
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The hi-tech industry is not a monolithic thing. If you look on a timeline of a company, you see that in the beginning, you have to come up with an idea and to be willing to take risk. You have to grow fast, you have to think fast, and you have to do this usually in small teams.
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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.
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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.
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When an artist gets the chance to have the media sunshine on them, they’ve got to take advantage of it.
