Johnny Rivers Quotes
I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.
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At 'Women's Wear', I always said, 'Get it first - get the bacon.'
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My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
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I am for literally all of the underdogs that I can command and demand better of everyone, including myself.
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
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I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.
