John Cullum Quotes
I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.
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I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
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Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm home with my friends, I'm always the same Gabriel. I'm no better or worse in their eyes because of my results. It's good to be with your true friends. It always reminds me of where I'm from and who I am.
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I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
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The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.
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Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
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Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.
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When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it's light, and sometimes it gets very dark.
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I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.
