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Michael On
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I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.
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I remember as a child, my mother loved Dean Martin. Every Christmas, about the only Christmas album that we were able to listen to was the Dean Martin Christmas album.
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'The Night of the Living Dead' zombies, I think I might have a shot at surviving. If they're the fast ones, I may have well just give up.
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E. B. White had a romantic tenderness toward nature in a capital R, 19th-century way. He was knowledgeable, a part-time farmer, and a hardheaded realistic person.
I was told as a teenager that I would never walk again.
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Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it.
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Henry David Thoreau was an oddball job quitter and ne'er-do-well who evolved into the bearded sage of literature, natural history, and civil liberties.
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I think as you grow up, you have the adjustment to responsibilities. Now you could say that's easy or not easy... but that's a difficult period of your life. You have the loss of loved ones, which then means you have more responsibilities. Periods in business when things don't run evenly.
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Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.
I think we all achieve a little. You can say, 'That's relative.' But when you think of world events, it really is very small.
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In film work, you do the best you can under the given circumstances, but you don't have control. At least, I don't.
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Actors spend most of their time out of work, so I actually spend more time making furniture. The thing about furniture that's much better than acting is that it's just me. There's no director, no script - the concept is me, unless a client wants something.
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I always look on imagination as one of the most powerful things we can cultivate in young people. If they have a good, active imagination, they can cope with life better; they are... able to imagine possibilities and to think around problems.
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There are art forms we don't know about yet that will be enabled by technology we haven't invented yet.