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 don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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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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'But what happens when you die?' 'You’re finished with,' Enderby said promptly. 'Done for. And even if you weren’t – well, you die then, gasp your last, then you’re sort of wandering, free of body. You wander around and then you come in contact with a sort of big thing. What is this big thing? God, if you like.'
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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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In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.
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You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns -And the public wants what the public gets - but I don't get what this society wants.
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I grew up in Texas City, Texas. I didn't know anybody who was a director or whose parents or grandparents were directors. I met somebody from a nearby town one time whose father had been to the moon - it was far more likely to be an astronaut than it was to be a writer or a director.
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L.A. is a great city to get lost in. The best thing to do is to drive in any direction, find a strip mall, and go from one store to the next. I guarantee you will see a collision of cultures you never imagined.
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I like to think I'm not a narcissist, but truth be told, we all have those sides to our character.
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I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.
