Duke Johnson Quotes

Puppets interacting with other puppets is super complicated. You're juggling ten balls instead of three.

Duke Johnson

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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.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Worry
  • Perception

• 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.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Good
  • Art
  • Serious

• Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Ideas
  • Progress
  • Will

• Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

  

  Vic Mignogna
  • Live
  • Know
  • Acting

• We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Morning
  • Never
  • Before

• 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.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Law

• I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • World
  • Guy
  • Feel

• 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!'

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • World
  • Love
  • Movie

• My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Work
  • Long
  • Camera

• I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Great
  • Song
  • Lyric

• It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • True
  • Government
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Friends
  • Fun
  • Actor

• When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do. In TV, you get new material weekly about your character.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Why
  • Character
  • Movie

• I have a noble body. It adapts to all I ask of it.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Body
  • Ask
  • Noble

• I'm going to discipline my kids, and can't no one tell me how to discipline my kids.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Kids
  • Discipline
  • Tell

• Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look neither right nor left, but only forward, what earthly consequences may follow is not material. Persecution strengthens him; and so he is sure he is right, whether his course end in a prison or on a throne is no matter at all. But men of this calibre are uncommon in any age or in any country very uncommon in this age and this country.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Brave
  • Prison
  • Consequences

• One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• I'm realizing that the people who criticize what I'm doing, their intentions and comments are not actually real.There's nothing happening in the real world outside of whatever they're writing on the internet. Whereas for the people who feel inspired by what I'm doing, there's something so concrete and powerful in what's happening when they feel empowered. There's actually some kind of growth or self-acceptance, some kind of self-love that's actually being triggered, hopefully. And that's real.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.

  

  J. Cole
  • Like
  • Sometimes
  • Try

• It's fun. If I ever think, 'Oh God, I've got to go to work today,' I'd hang it up. Being involved with young kids, I think it definitely does do something for you. I'd rather do that than go play bingo or something.

  

  Norm Parker
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Play

• Puppets interacting with other puppets is super complicated. You're juggling ten balls instead of three.

  

  Duke Johnson