Michael Jackson Quotes
The press has made up so much...God...awful, horrifying stories...it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.
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I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
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Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.
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I'm obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don't say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.
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There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.
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It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.
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To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
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If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does - otherwise it's like bringing Michael Jordan to your basketball team and telling him to just pass the ball and don't shoot.
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I haven't done an international film for a long time.
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It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.
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Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries.
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The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the Government, the sovereign power.
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The gipsy tents are on the down,The gipsy girls are here;And it's O to be off and away from the townWith a gipsy for my dear!
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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Theater mode is a different muscle. It's sort of the same acting muscle, but it's extended. Instead of a sprint with movies and television, it's a marathon.
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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
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The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
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For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.
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The press has made up so much...God...awful, horrifying stories...it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.
