Alessandro Michele Quotes
I become mad when I work. It's like a fever that grows; I don't need to choose just one thing.
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.
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I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.
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I need to work to feel well.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
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Competition for places can only benefit you. If you know you've got that much competition, then you're just going to have to work that extra bit harder so you can catch the gaffer's eye.
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All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.'
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.
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I become mad when I work. It's like a fever that grows; I don't need to choose just one thing.
