Michael Stipe (John Michael Stipe) Quotes
Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.
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Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
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For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.
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I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
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Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.
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Telecom was the golden goose which laid the golden egg. The Supreme Court ensured that the golden goose will never lay golden egg again for a little while.
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I charged into something which might have been a tree, but was not-being, in point of fact, Jeeves.
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Shoes are a big thing for me, just because it's hard to find shoes that fit me correctly.
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I would have done higher than that... I would have set it higher.
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If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.
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It'd be nice to just hear, "You did a great job." I don't say this from personal experience because I have an amazing husband who is an amazing father. I say this knowing he does it all the time. He's always great about saying, "You were amazing today." He does it without me having to ask for it and there's something so beautiful about not fishing for that compliment from your partner that gives you that much more of stability and confidence.
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A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.
