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.

John Cullum

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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.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
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• But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.

  

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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.

  

  Sam Worthington
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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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• Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.

  

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• Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

  

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• Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been a bit anti-American - so I never did.

  

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• At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.

  

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• And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

  

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  • Time
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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.

  

  John Cullum
  • Comedy
  • Singing