Landon Donovan Quotes
As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.
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I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.
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When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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I have never been one of those actors who say, 'Oh, my character wouldn't do this,' or 'My character never wears an orange shirt,' or any of the number of inane things I've heard on movie sets throughout my career.
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Some, like Mother Teresa, are born with a gene to help the poor, and some are born with a gene to write. I was born with a gene to tell my story, and I just had to.
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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
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There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.
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Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
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Certainly, you know, you can always learn from some - from somebody else's - from some intelligence. I think. I hope.
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As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.
