John D. Voelker Quotes
I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew about.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
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When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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My family understands the pain of struggling with a loved one who's suffering from a blood-related cancer, and we seek to support those who are working to find a cure.
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'Family Ties' was a very successful situation comedy. And, in almost every respect, it functioned on a day to day basis like a well-run, well conditioned basketball team. The show was performed live each week in front of a studio audience on Friday night.
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The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.
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You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
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I love wine tasting in Napa. I don't have a huge collection, but the bottles I do have are special.
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You can only go into science because you're interested in it.
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Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development.
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I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.
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The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.
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I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.
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There is violence and injustice in our world that must be confronted. We must confront it not by splitting apart but by standing together as free nations, as free people. I know that a call to arms can stir the souls of men and women more than a call to lay them down. But that is why the voices for peace and progress must be raised together.
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Actually my ideal piece of sculpture is a road.
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I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right.
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There are things you want to do, but you can't really look at the future. You don't know how much there is.
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I never thought I was writing for kids at all. It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the books. If I'd known I was writing for kids, I might actually have spelt things out a bit more, and that would probably have killed the appeal.
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The question is-what is the question?
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I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew about.
