Michael Jackson Quotes
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
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Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.
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We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
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I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.
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I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.
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Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one - none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance - to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.
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Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.
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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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We can search among the unconscious, emotion-laden learning rules for the kind of behavior most directly influenced by genetic evolution.
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Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.
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When you prepare for something, you can then play around; you're not as worried about remembering your lines because you already know them so well. That's where you can find the freedom. So I'm all about prep work.
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You can register a political objection in a number of ways.
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Over the years, I really focused on doing the best job I could, working hard, getting great results, and working with my teams.
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I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.
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Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference.
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If you want to see eccentricities, I'll be grotesque before your eyes.
