Duke Johnson Quotes
Puppets interacting with other puppets is super complicated. You're juggling ten balls instead of three.
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Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of me.
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.
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I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.
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I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
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The pageant movie I'm obsessed with is 'Miss Congeniality', hands down! I could quote everything from that movie. I love so many scenes, but I always find myself quoting the scene when Sandra Bullock goes, 'I really do just want world peace!'
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.
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I have a noble body. It adapts to all I ask of it.
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I'm going to discipline my kids, and can't no one tell me how to discipline my kids.
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Our intention creates our reality.
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I indeed do respect all people for the positives in their life. Sadly, there comes a time of diminishing returns in the balance. At the end of the day, my respect is reserved for those solidly in the asset column of mankind.
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Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?
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Some great friendships can be formed because you see one another at your best and worst.
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Instinct leads, logic does but follow.
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Puppets interacting with other puppets is super complicated. You're juggling ten balls instead of three.
