J. Courtney Sullivan Quotes
When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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I am from the Kardashian group. We can take anything.
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It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.
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I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.
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I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.
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We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.
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Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.
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I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.
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All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.
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I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.
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If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.
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My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I'd love to do a Brazilian film. I've been brought up in the Brazilian culture. My mum brought me up on my own, I cook Brazilian food, I've never spoken a word of English to my mother.
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Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
