Ian St. John Quotes
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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Actually William wasn't there for quite a bit of the time initially, he wasn't there for Freshers Week, so it did take a bit of time for us to get to know each other but we did become very close friends from quite early.
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It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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Why was I born with such contemporaries?
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I just followed my parents' example and advice on living, which was to leave the world a better place than you found it. They were professional do-gooders, ministers of the church, social workers, teachers, and missionaries, that sort of thing.
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Once you're on the wheel, you don't come off.
