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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Where do you go to buy back your reputation when you lose it?
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Everyone is so afraid of making themselves look bad and of judgement.
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If you've got a bazooka, and people know you've got it, you may not have to take it out.
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The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still and waited for the dirt to collect. We kids were carriers. We ran a pickup and delivery service.
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At Cambridge, there was a completely unintimidating culture, and there were no class divisions among the students.
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One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.
