John Barrowman Quotes
'Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.
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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.
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What you wish to others, God wishes to you.
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No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.
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For every moment of triumph, there is an unequal and opposite feeling of despair. Take that iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali standing triumphantly over the prostrate, semiconscious wreckage of Sonny Liston. Great photo. Now think of Liston. Do the pleasure/pain calculus.
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I've always been interested in exploring difficult subjects for the mainstream.
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Love is a good thing.
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Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.
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'Desperate Housewives' was a good experience, though, as I got to play the bad guy for once. My only complaint was they had me in a lot of sweaters.
