John Cornyn Quotes
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I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.
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I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
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'Damages' was cool. It brought me back to New York for a little while, so that was a lot of fun, and I was obviously very excited about the opportunity to work with Rose Byrne and Glenn Close. I'd been a fan of that show before I started working on it.
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The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
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I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
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Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books.
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I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?
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I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
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But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.
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I've trained all my life. I've always been one who enjoys training so it's not something that I think I can just stop doing. It might not be as regular but I want to keep training.
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I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
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It was hard doing scenes with Bobby Cannavale because I would break up laughing because he's so funny.
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Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!
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I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.
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I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.
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When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally.
