Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut feeling is that on the inside, she has the same simple refinement as the hedgehog: a deceptively indolent little creature, fiercely solitary--and terrible elegant.
Quotes about michel (7 Quotes)
On Thursday, when the House was scheduled to vote, Regan called Minority leader Robert Michel of Illinois and promised to support the 211 million jobs program for the elderly in a future bill. Administration lobbyists also passed the word that the President would not fight for his extra 2 billion in defense funds in a subsequent measure. With those pledges, however, Reagan undercut his argument for vetoing the measure in the first place. Why this charade ... Why go through this process.
This is just one of a vast number of plays and operas Stein has scheduled over the next five years, including Oedipus at Colonus with Michel Piccoli in Paris, a trio of Tchaikovsky's Pushkin-based operas in Lyons, Henze's The Bassarids in Amsterdam, Monteverdi's Return of Ulysses in Strasbourg, Botho Strauss's The Park in Italy and Shakespeare's Richard II in Russia. It's a nightmare, ... I think I should cancel some. Or perhaps I should ask them to give me the money now so that, when I die, they will have paid me a third without getting the show. Then I can spin in my grave laughing.
The Renaissance scholar Michel de Montaigne said, 'there is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom,' ... Drama, comedy and tragedy all have their roots in the compelling theatre of life that is closest to us all our relationships with those tied to us by blood.
The criminal charge was not the issue. In fact, the government, in cases like this under its rehabilitation policy, will allow you to remain if you can show you've been a good citizen for five years with no criminal record. Michel has been all of that and can show it.
We decided early on that if we were going to do it, we were going to do it properly. Spike, Michel and I were quite inspired by the Criterion Collection, where they take a great film and surround it with whatever exists relating to it--archival footage, new footage, a nice book. A complete package. If these were just music video compilations, specifically, they would have been a lot less interesting than if we tried to make them definitive and complete.
He's a great success story, I am really excited for him for not just his hockey but his life. He's just a great person without question one of the best kids we have had come through here. Michel is a Black Bear through and through.