Michael Jackson Quotes
I love animals because all they really want from you is love. Too bad that's even too much to ask for from some people.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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Now I'm going to show a side of me I haven't shown before. I'm going to be fierce.
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
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If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
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Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.
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In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
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I've got so many big gains to make in the javelin and the shot put. I know I'm not going to be winning the field in those events, but I need to do myself justice.
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Societies can easily talk themselves into conflict and misery. But they can also talk, and act, their way out.
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Women are totally unsafe in Punjab.
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If you rob someone who would help you if you needed help you only rob yourself. ... Do you imagine you can be cruel without teaching others to be cruel to you?
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What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.
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Success is no longer about changing strategies more often, but having the agility to execute multiple strategies concurrently. And success requires CEOs to develop the right leadership capabilities, workforce skills, and corporate cultures to support digital transformation.
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I love animals because all they really want from you is love. Too bad that's even too much to ask for from some people.
