George Michael Quotes

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

George Michael

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• American
• Way
• Gay

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• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

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• I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

  

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• Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

  

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• Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!

  

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• I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.

  

  Olivia Colman
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• Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Food
  • Honor

• It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Writing
  • Health
  • Learning

• I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Good
  • Enjoy

• And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Think
  • Child
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• The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Age
  • Museum
  • 19th-Century

• I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Up
  • Learn
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• When you have somebody in a position of power show interest in you after you've kind of been down and out, that's a big boost.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Power

• I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Up
  • Future
  • Wonder

• I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

  

  David Chase
  • Children

• I don't like inherited wealth.

  

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• Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

  

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• My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.

  

  Katherine Moennig
  • People
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• Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

  

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  • Music
  • Joy
  • Firsts

• It's really hard to name a band.

  

  Riki Lindhome
  • Band
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• I don't do proud.

  

  David Bailey
  • Proud

• There was never a conspiracy, never a tremendous fear. This is a society which is now in its third generation of severe political repression, so that children in North Korea have several hours of political education a day. Their parents did, and their grandparents did.

  

  Ashton Carter
  • Conspiracy
  • Repression
  • North Korea

• It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

  

  Darrell Issa
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

  

  George Michael
  • Music
  • American
  • Way