John Calvin Quotes
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Everything begins with an idea.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
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It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.
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Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.
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Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.
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The Seventies theory explosion i.e., Literary theory, deconstruction, etc. was a panic reaction by headlocked pedants unable to cope with the emotional and sensory flux of the Sixties. It was a desperate search for new authority, new dogma.
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Truth does not hurt, rather, it is our resistance to its message that causes pain.
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Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.
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Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.
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It is such a relief to be told the truth.
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It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.
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I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.
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All truth is God's truth.
