Demetrious Johnson Quotes
I'm a good dad. I'm an evolved dad. You know, you see a lot of guys when they're in training camp, they go off, do their own thing. But I'm in the midst of it. Swim lessons? I'm there. Changing diapers, teething, doctor's appointments, I'm there 24/7.
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don't work on our weaknesses.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
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I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I'm basically a silly guy.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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I had such a supportive family, and I think that affects your life in such a profound way; it fortifies you completely.
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I think teams win. I don't think offense wins. I don't think defense wins. I don't think special teams - teams win.
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I'm an older woman who's not going to have a shiny pop song ever again, so that gives me license to do whatever the hell I want.
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I'm a good dad. I'm an evolved dad. You know, you see a lot of guys when they're in training camp, they go off, do their own thing. But I'm in the midst of it. Swim lessons? I'm there. Changing diapers, teething, doctor's appointments, I'm there 24/7.
