Johnny Rivers Quotes
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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I was tested against the best.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to be the setting for one of my books. I pay more attention to certain aspects than some other people might. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Most of the books I write are based on experiences I've had to some extent.
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Oddly, a search for 'jeggings' in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from - wait for it - Mike Allen of 'Politico,' who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009.
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'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.
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A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.
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My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.
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If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.
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I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.
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I still love making music. And I still love performing for my fans. I'd like to thank them for sticking with me through thick and thin.
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The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.
