Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes
But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
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I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
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I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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You really do have to be different. You really do have to set yourself apart.
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The incest taboo is another major category of primed learning.
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Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity.
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It’s a troublesome world. All the people who're in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You oughta be thankful, a whole heaping lot, For the places and people you're lucky you're not!
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But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.
