John Connolly Quotes
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The world is always in movement.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
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I am not an actor. Yes, every so often I appear on talk shows to promote something I've written, and I enjoy doing so because I have a lot of stories to tell, and I like making audiences laugh. But that's not acting. That's just me being me.
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We like the idea of being a little divisive without making it into some kind of philosophical musical approach, and maybe we can convert some people to our view of the world.
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Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.
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If you work at home, you're always on call in a way.
