Michael Jackson Quotes

I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of gossip and scandal and all that trash that people write, so I don’t think people paid much attention to it, but it came from my heart. It was essays, thoughts and things that I’ve thought about while on tour...

Michael Jackson

• Dancing The Dream

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• All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Friends
  • You
  • Like

• I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Movies
  • Discover
  • Observer

• There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Fear
  • Quality
  • Better

• The way that I opened the door for the young people that come from where I come from and that have a different background, that is what I want to be remembered for.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• We grow small trying to be great.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Small

• I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.

  

  Sally Struthers
  • People
  • Kids
  • Young

• Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Writing
  • Art

• I don't read the critics.

  

  Olivier Dahan
  • Read
  • Critics

• My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Movies
  • Normal
  • Eighteen

• Between the mysteries of death and lifeThou standest, loving, guiding,- not explaining;We ask, and Thou art silent,- yet we gaze,And our charmed hearts forget their drear complaining;No crushing fate, no stony destiny!Thou Lamb that hast been slain, we rest in Thee.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Art
  • Death
  • Rest

• It's pleasing to realize that quite a few people enjoy this sort of playfulness and that they are not afraid to look at the relative nature of rock-hard reality.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • People
  • Nature
  • Reality

• It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Giving
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Lion

• The most pivotal moments in people's lives revolve around emotions. Emotions make stories powerful.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Moments
  • Powerful

• We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Education
  • Church

• The long-lived K meson was discovered at Brookhaven.

  

  James Cronin
  • Long

• Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

  

  Will Smith

• I do believe that mentorship is something I did not get in school, and I don't think it exists in school in a sufficient way.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Believe
  • School

• I didn't do anything wrong and I promise to never do it again.

  

  Richard M. Nixon
  • Promise

• The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Done
  • Feel
  • Idea

• 'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Beginning

• Donald Trump wouldn't work on paper. Obnoxious, crass, boastful, and vulgar, with garish tastes and a Stepford wife - as a fictional character, he'd seem too crudely drawn. Even in a trashy airport thriller, readers wouldn't buy such a boor as president.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Work
  • Character
  • Wife

• I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of gossip and scandal and all that trash that people write, so I don’t think people paid much attention to it, but it came from my heart. It was essays, thoughts and things that I’ve thought about while on tour...

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Dancing The Dream