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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• This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

  

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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!

  

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

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Up
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• I don’t feel powerful at all. I am still under this kind of detention, and you know, this is kind of a bail. Even yesterday I realized while trying to take care of the baby, at the park, I had been secretly followed and it’s quite fragile. Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

  

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

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Up
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• 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.

  

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• I don't like inherited wealth.

  

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• What I love is getting polarized opinions.

  

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• For 'Beasts,' I really wanted my character to be this sort of mushy, muscleless Muppet.

  

  Katherine Waterston
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• I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

  

  Jane Siberry
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• I am interested in politics but have stayed away from writing overtly political songs, or message songs, because I find it difficult to discuss politics intelligently in a 4-minute song. But I am finding there are ways to get bits and pieces of political thought across without preaching that the people have the power or we shall not be moved. Of course these sentiments have their place too - I'm not knocking Phil Ochs - but that's a different kind of music, songs to play at rallies, not to achieve a state of bliss.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• I think the hymns give us a glimpse of the generations before us, and what was important to them at the time. Even though they are usually singing similiar messages that are in today's music, it is good to be reminded that the message of Christ is just as much relevant today as it was then.

  

  Bart Millard MercyMe
  • Music
  • Christ
  • Generations

• 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