Michael Riedel Quotes

I always read a lot as a kid and I'd spend long periods of time in my room reading... I wasn't reading anything great until I got older, but I used to read Agatha Christie mysteries and all of Ian Fleming's 'James Bond' novels.

Michael Riedel

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It frustrates me if I'm not good at something, so I do it until I get good at it.

Joe Mauer

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I do like structure, and I'd love to be better at it.

Jeff Buckley

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I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.

Jean Rhys

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My perfect day in Baltimore begins with getting my five newspapers. Then I would write.

John Waters

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If the Bible is correct, and the Earth is only 6,000 years old, that means there were no dinosaurs, and museum curators have been messing with us. Or the dinosaurs were here, and we never noticed them. Or a lot of people saw them but didn't want to say anything.

Ron Shock

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I'm Hispanic - don't mess around with my coffee. Leave my beans alone.

Liz Torres

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When one has taken root, one puts out branches.

Jules Verne

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Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not entirely bizarre, either, as I have done some work in film before, and even directed a ridiculous, cable-access feature back in my 20s.

Jonathan Raymond

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I met Ne-Yo in London. I sang for him and he said, 'I want to sign you.' It was amazing - it meant my name was buzzing around the industry and I got to meet lots of different labels.

Conor Maynard

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I think America has always been polarized.

Alice Walker

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I don't think people realize what it's like for people of color to audition for film and TV.

Phoebe Robinson

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Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything; it's just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

Shia LaBeouf

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