Michael Chabon Quotes

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.

Michael Chabon

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A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and of a State. The former acts as a restriction on the powers of this government, but the latter as an enlargement.

John C. Calhoun

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I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

Ann Coulter

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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

John Stuart Mill

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I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.

Skitch Henderson

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Teenagers' relationships with their parents often aren't really explored in much depth, but at that age, it's your primary relationship; they're the people you live with.

Miles Heizer

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When I saw Justin in 'The Social Network', I became deeply obsessed with the desire to work with him and reached out to Justin. When we met, we talked about a couple of things I was working on that did not come to fruition, but it gave us a meeting.

Jonathan Demme

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I found a 'lost' manuscript called the Book of Soyga that had once belonged to Queen Elizabeth I's court astrologer, John Dee, in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Everybody thought it was the missing key to Dee's interest in magic. Of course, it wasn't really lost. It was there, in the catalog.

Deborah Harkness

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I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes.

David Steinberg

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In 'Seven Years In Tibet,' I played a Buddhist. But I'm not religious at all, really.

David Thewlis

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The satellite business is a very successful business, very profitable business, and serves the broadcast market in addition to the telecoms market.

Chua Sock Koong

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The trouble is that people are all too ready to jump to conclusions about anybody who they think looks a bit strange. They think you must be mentally subnormal.

Pete Burns

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That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.

Mos Def

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