John Clayton Quotes
I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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I love to perform live.
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The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
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I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
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Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me!
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I feel like art has been at the center of change since the beginning of time.
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I'll never forget the time my mother showed up with her best friend and two daughters, and all four of us dressed up in matching clothes, shoes and hats to go pick up my brother from school. I thought it was a fun thing to do, but we stepped outside my brother's school and he was mortified!
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I think that women are peacemakers by genetics, because we are the ones who stay at home and because we are the ones who suffer with the aftermath of war.
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I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.
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I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.
