Michael Jackson Quotes
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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
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My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'
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We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.
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I feel like in every song I write, I always write a little darker bit.
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I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I had a blast talking on the phone to my younger brother, Patrick, remembering all of the things that happened to our family when we were growing up.
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Lies run sprints but the truth runs marathons.
