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Michael Finkel Quotes

I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american

Topics

Myself Sympathy Ordinary Make Many

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

You Professional True Others Level

Politics in Washington is a contact sport. But it shouldn't be a personal animosity sport.

Politics Washington Personal Contact

In preschool, I would plan out my show-and-tell every week to be funny and exciting. Then in first grade I wrote a play, and my classmates and I performed it as a puppet show.

Funny Plan Week Play Classmates Out

I don't think people maybe think that the government does tell them the truth. I think they expect politicians who are going to tell them one thing and then when they get in office do something else.

Truth Government People Think Office

Equally, though, there are guys who play England Under 19 who don't even play First Class cricket. It is a watershed in the careers in many ways.

Cricket Play Class First First Class

I'm such a late bloomer.

Late Late Bloomer Bloomer

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

Honesty Keep Going Voice You Down

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.

Rosanna Arquette

Love Music Sad Great Me Musicians

I've been offered starring roles in horrible movies, but I just didn't want to do it. I don't see why you would.

You Want Movies Why See Horrible

If you really put your mind to it, anything is possible.

Mind You Possible Anything Your Put

I have a card catalogue in my brain of every lyric of every sappy love song ever written.

Love Brain Song Every Sappy Ever

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

Never Like Knows Much How Longer

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