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Michael Keaton Quotes

I never wanted to play the short game.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: September 5, 1951

Topics

Game Short Play Never Wanted

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

God Society Name Violence Person

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

People Interesting Back More Gardens

I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Person Play Want Why Same Act

I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.

Law Problems Enjoy I Can Say Hand

Chinese growth will either be strong or very strong. They have a voracious demand for energy that will only continue to grow. What they're doing... is looking at all forms of energy. They're going ahead very strongly with coal, nuclear, oil, natural gas.

Growth Be Strong Looking Energy Grow

I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all.

Beautiful Imagination Reality Feel

I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.

World You Seen Keep Collection

I definitely care about what's happening in our country. I grew up in a family that was very liberal and had very strong opinions about liberal ideas. I was around those thoughts and had conversations about those things and did the best I could to absorb what was happening around me and have my own opinion about it.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Family Best Me Ideas Thoughts Care

All too often, female characters, in particular, aren't multi-layered enough.

Enough Characters Female Often Too

I studied political science, and when I fell into acting in college - it was just a total fluke that I became an actor. I ended up changing my degree and went for a double major and missed political science by two classes.

Science College Political Acting Up

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Death Reading Long Journal Like His

'The Man Who Loved Children,' Christina Stead's masterpiece, remains the most fabulous book that hardly anyone I know has read.

Jonathan Franzen

Children Man Book Loved Know Most

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