Michael Douglas Quotes

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

Michael Douglas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 25, 1944

Topics

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There is a lot of propaganda about opera singers not being able to act. That's not necessarily true and hasn't been true for a very long time. And certainly there were those instances when singers were told they need to fit into a certain size dress. Of course, women. Men? They just make the costume bigger.

Jessye Norman

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Yelp has been in this business since it really became something worth thinking about in 2004, when the transition started happening from the world of the Yellow Pages to the world of searching online for local information.

Jeremy Stoppelman

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It's so much nicer to be able to do your job with someone who's helping you, and you're helping them. Then, it becomes a tennis match where you're hitting the ball back and forth, and you're a team.

Aneurin Barnard

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'The Thirteenth Tale' is reminiscent of 'Wuthering Heights' because you're never sure if it's a ghost or if people have gone a bit mad; that feeling that's been channelled all the way from Bronte is a really exciting one.

Tom Goodman-Hill

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I'm brave and fearless when I'm performing, but in real life, I'm actually quite prudish.

Roisin Murphy

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I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

Mike D

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Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Joyce Grenfell

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The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Joseph Conrad

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I love cookbooks. I certainly have my fair share at home, but I'm a really funny cookbook person: I don't really ever cook out of cookbooks. I like cookbooks for the commentary or the pictures or the history.

Christina Tosi

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You can learn a lot if you become a student of what's happening to you.

Brian Fallon

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Let no one challenge India's secularism.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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