John Bright Quotes
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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I do two months of strict dieting, so after fight night, I go for whatever my body is craving. It's usually sushi. But after that, I go home to Guadalajara and indulge in a lot of tacos before I have to start getting in shape for another fight.
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The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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Respect the burden.
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You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.
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I cannot get over the strange conflict between my estimation of their ideas the artists of Italian Futurism most of which I find brilliant and fruitful, and my view of the their pictures he saw on the Walden exhibition in Berlin, Spring 2012, which strike me as, without a doubt, utterly mediocre.
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All the time the joke is that the word "mine" in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either [Satan] or God will say "mine" of each thing that exists, and specially of each man.
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I get free life lessons from J-Hope and Jimin; sometimes it's like they're 10 years older than me.
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I don't know who the actresses all are. I've never heard of Kate but I'm sure she'll do fine.
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Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.
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Popular applause veers with the wind.
