Kristen Johnston Quotes
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
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Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
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I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I spent my high school years in Minnesota. And then I spent my college years in Colorado. And then I spent some time living in China. And then I spent three years in Vermont before moving down to Nashville.
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Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
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It's kind of weird. You can have hits, but it's hard to sustain a career. I went through that period where I didn't have a lot of hits, although people were still buying the records.
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There is some pretty powerful self-interest in wanting a future that is not just running storm-to-storm. The argument that I make is not that we aren't competitive and selfish and greedy. We are. We're all of these things. We're complicated, competitive, greedy and nasty, and kind and generous and compassionate.
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If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?
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I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.
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The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
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On '30 Rock,' the hours were really intense, and I was often on set. I'm glad I didn't have a kid then because I don't think I would have ever seen her. I would work 15-hour days, and weekends, too.
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Nobody can tell you how to be a good wife or husband.
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I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do.
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As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx.
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Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step.
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It would have to stand on the basis of what somebody had done to it and that would be the basis on which it would be judged. So it's a funny art form. You gain a great deal when you have good collaborators and sometimes people just don't understand what you've done.
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I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.
