Jamie Johnson Quotes
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap.
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The whole freedom-of-speech thing is great. But I don't think that our Founding Fathers predicted social media when they created all of these amendments and stuff.
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Because of the long, long history of British shipping, immigration, trade, empire, missionaries, you can have a better shot at telling a worldwide story in the British Museum's collection than any other. Britain has been more connected with the rest of the world than any other country, for longer.
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I tried other sports and it wasn't as fun. It must be in the blood, I guess.
