John Cornyn Quotes
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I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.
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I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.
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Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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I am a journalist.
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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
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As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
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For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.
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The delights of self-discovery are always available.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
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I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.
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There's nothing worse than bad scatting, except maybe bad mouth trumpet. Mouth trumpet may sound like a trumpet, but it's really more like playing a kazoo. The instant you do your solo, the audience has a bit of a chuckle.
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In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
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I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.
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A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
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Well, you know, that's the problem in America, we're always having elections.
