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Michael Madsen
"I've never been able to read for anything, and every time I have, I've never gotten the part. And I don't know why that is. I just can't. Reading or auditioning for something... It's like it's this mental block in my brain, and I just can't do it. But when people ask you to do stuff without making you go through that, it's a much more pleasant experience." --
Source : "Yo La Tengo Is Here for the Long Haul". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. November 14, 2015.
Michael Madsen
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“Transformation means nothing of the old should remain; something absolutely new should happen.”
“Human hopes and human creeds; have their root in human needs.”
Source : Eugene Fitch Ware (1899). “Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill [pseud.]: (A Book of Moods.) ...”
“Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.”
“I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.”
“It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.”
Source : Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “IN A DIFFERENT VOICE”, p.6, Harvard University Press
“In terms of economical aspects, reinforcing those national parks with sophisticated anti-poaching patrols - these poachers are beefed up like the army. In the case of Cameroon, that's a perfect example of the lack of finance. The government could not provide the national park with more guards. Therefore, they lost the majority of the elephant population. I don't want to see that anywhere else.”
“Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.”
“We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry”