Michael Jackson Quotes
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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We don't realize that we face a frustrating situation in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.
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Drinking really cold beer is like slapping yourself in the face with an ice pick.
