John Calvin Quotes
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.
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I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.
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When I got to Iraq, my world focused in on one mission. It was incredibly rewarding.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.
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Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.
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One of the great things about being an older person is that I am very aware of the scope of the work and the historical sense of it. It's bigger than me.
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Your ability to work with others on a complex task is a critical skill for advancement at work.
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If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.
