John Avlon Quotes
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.
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I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.
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The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
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Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.
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Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.
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I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.
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I'm mad for satin.
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You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
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Neither men nor women are exempt from killing loved ones. The difference is in what happens to them when they do. Twelve distinct female-only defenses allow a woman who commits a premeditated murder to have the charges dropped or significantly reduced. No man has successfully used any of these defenses in similar circumstances.
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'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.'
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We can be bought, but we can't be bored.
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Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
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What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice. He's much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible and that I'm not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that's involved in national politics.
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To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.
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The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause of astonishment: their inability to understand simple questions is even more astonishing. The general acceptance of simple ideas is difficult and rare, and yet it is only when simple, fundamental, ideas have been accepted that further progress becomes possible on a higher level.
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And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, 'Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen.'
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The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren't any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds.
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One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.
