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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I hate clothes. As soon as I get home every day, I take off as many clothes as possible.
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You go to a Springsteen show, and half of the people are there to party and forget about their cares, and they're being drawn to this visceral experience. And then the other half, you know, has lived and died with his 'Nebraska' album and considers him one of the greatest poets.
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Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other.
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One of the best mental disciplines for people to implement is simply putting together a schedule or a task list and actually executing it. Write the list or the schedule the night before, and then do what you said you would do. Life becomes much better when you do that.
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One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.