Johann Lamont Quotes
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.
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The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.
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You're always fighting the demons.
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Korean nationalism has not only energized the North’s march to nuclear armament, but also exerted a growing appeal on people in the South - the ideological discourse of which republic has received even less attention than the North’s. The average American knows only that in the 1980s liberal democracy replaced authoritarianism here in South Korea.
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The thing that's really kept me on my toes is how my mom would always tell me - it's not the best thing for a mother to tell you - but she'd never tell me after I'd lose a soccer game, 'You'll do better next time.' She'd always say, 'There's always somebody better.'
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'When you argue with a child,' she said warmly, 'you give a good argument and the child says yah, yah! You understand him and he doesn't listen, so the child wins.'
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I'd always step up to the mark to serve the people of the country.
