John Branch Quotes
I had to find stories no one else was writing, so I got away from the quarterback and the coach. I'm still looking for stories no one else has written.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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'Press Your Luck' was probably the most exciting because of the unpredictability of the game and how I won on one of the three days on the very last spin against all odds. It was one of those great unpredictable game show moments.
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There's layers to our stuff: Our top layer is like candy-coated pop, because we want to party and have a nice time, but we also have a lot of different human experiences and other levels present in the Die Antwoord experience.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.
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Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.
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You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.
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If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.
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I only have one job, and that's being a storyteller.
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When you eat a carrot that is nothing but carrot it zooms through your system as a carrot. When you eat a piece of mass-produced carrot cake that contains 32 ingredients, your metabolism screeches to a halt while your body tries to figure out what all those things are that you just swallowed, and what it is supposed to do with them. Therefore, the problem isn’t “fat”, its piles of excess ingredients your body’s stacked on shelves and vowed to sort out later.
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I had to find stories no one else was writing, so I got away from the quarterback and the coach. I'm still looking for stories no one else has written.
