Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes
I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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I had a bit of a male menopause. It started at the age of 18 and continued until I was 45.
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It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
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The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
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I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
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I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
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Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
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I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.
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The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.
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Food can change anything.
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You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
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When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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People of a certain age still remember me as Edna Garrett. They often want to give me a hug because the character was so warm and nurturing. I don't mind at all. I think it's very nice.
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'Welcome to the Dollhouse' is great. Even though it's about a girl in middle school, to me, that feels like the most honest reflection of what being a kid around that age feels like.
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If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the mind, but your spirit has to be made alive - that's the real part, the part that God speaks to.
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One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.
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When I was out promoting 'Selma,' I became aware of so many other films that ought to be getting distribution. And this is a problem I can do something about because of my experience.
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I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.
