Michael Gudinski (Michael Solomon Gudinsk) Quotes
If you’ve got a job you enjoy, you’ll be better at it and you’ll be happier in life.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
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I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.
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I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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One of the cool things about getting to audition for things on short notice is that it teaches you to memorize efficiently. So I've never been afraid of getting text down quickly.
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My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.'
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Feeling better is not actually being better.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
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I created myself, and I'll attack anybody I feel like.
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What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.
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'Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.
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If you’ve got a job you enjoy, you’ll be better at it and you’ll be happier in life.
