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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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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I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
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My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.
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The same ten dollars you spend on lunch is all it costs for City Harvest to feed 37 kids who are hungry. That's pretty astounding.
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I don't feel that I was often compartmentalized as an African-American actor, yet I am fully aware of the plight that actors, directors and producers of color face in our industry. I choose to focus on being proactive in creating opportunities for myself and others while acknowledging that we are not playing on a level playing field.
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Nature utters her voice in lessons of heavenly wisdom and eternal truth.
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All things come to him who hustles while he waits.
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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.
