Philip Johnson Quotes
I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.
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The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
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When I started working on 'Battlestar Galactica' in Canada, I was told to get as fit as a marine for my character Lee 'Apollo' Adama. So I did. But now I have a problem with suits, because I'm 5 ft. 9 in. with a 40 inch chest and a 31 inch waist, so I'm rather too big for that very tailored British look, and they always have to be altered.
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My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches.
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Winning feels great, and everybody loves a winner. But the very best figure out what's coming next and don't assume they've got the winning formula forever.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.
