Michael Eavis (Athelstan Joseph Michael Eavis) Quotes

I wanted to hang on to all that tradition; I wasn’t going to leave anything behind. It was important for me to be grounded, and I also was building the farm up. My socialism and the peace group all linked in with my Methodism.

Michael Eavis

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• Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.

  

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• I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

  

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• Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

  

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• Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

  

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• When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.

  

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• If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

  

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• I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.

  

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• No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.

  

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• For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.

  

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• I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.

  

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• I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

  

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• As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

  

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• I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.

  

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• I'm not being really intelligent in my film choices; I'm just landing the opportunity when it comes.

  

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• Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.

  

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• A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.

  

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• If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

  

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• In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.

  

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• Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.

  

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• Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace,The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe,The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release,The indifferent judge between the high and low.

  

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• With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.

  

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• I wanted to hang on to all that tradition; I wasn’t going to leave anything behind. It was important for me to be grounded, and I also was building the farm up. My socialism and the peace group all linked in with my Methodism.

  

  Michael Eavis
  • Important
  • Peace
  • Tradition