Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away
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I've lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that's a lot of folly to witness up close. Whatever confidence and optimism I felt towards the central government when I got here on January 1, 1970 has pretty much dissipated at the hands of the government.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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Love, love will be my strongest weapon.
