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Michael Moore Quotes

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 23, 1954

Topics

Filmmaker Well Documentary Very

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Romantic Beard Tradition Young Wears

I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It's a hard way to learn to write. I don't recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us.

Writing Start Think Short Learn Way

The economics of setting up a new restaurant are scary in good times and terrifying in bad ones.

John Lanchester

Good Good Times Economics Restaurant

At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand.

Beginning Influence Opinion Wish

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

Angelina Grimke

Me Law Sin Will Suffer Break

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.

Cool Mom Game Gift Play Christmas

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.

Stephen Greenblatt

Moment First Pleasure Stage Interest

I didn't grow up around my father. I didn't really grow up around my mother, either. I was raised by a community of people. Spiritually speaking, my father is in Heaven, and that is who I look to for all my answers. And that's why my faith is very strong and why my passion is strong.

Father Mother Passion Faith People

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

Christopher Eccleston

Light Camera You Way Watching Watch

I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

Alone Better My Own Always Own

With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is headed for a 2009 crack-up that could prove as messy as any party civil war in recent history.

History War Party Prove Messy Two

I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is something that doesn't really get enough attention. Everybody struggles with feeling alone or that they are going through something they don't quite understand.

Alone Think Enough Attention Feeling

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