Johann Lamont Quotes
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I just want to do my job.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
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Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.
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I'm not worried about what's in fashion, what's not in fashion, what are the colors of the season. I go with my gut instinct because every time I haven't it's been a mistake.
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Eventually the man comes to see that he has a mind, and that his mind is like a fist, wrapped tightly around a single thought. He cannot open the fist to look at the thought, for fear that it will fly away, but he knows that it is very important and that he must hang on to it, no matter what the cost.
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You always kind of feel like you're rolling the dice as an actor.
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Maybe I was just born to argue with men.
