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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I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.
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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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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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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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Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.
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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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There's no way that that our military power will not erode if a robust American economic revival is not part of the cards.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
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No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to try to learn new skills and to keep fit at the same time.
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Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.
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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.
