John Delaney Quotes
There's a lot of new subject matter to learn. You start slowly peeling the onion and start figuring out how the policy and the politics intersect.
Quotes to Explore
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.
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The reaction that I got from 'Diamonds' I would have expected to get from 'House of the Rising Sun' or one of the other songs.
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I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.
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Even if you're an angry, intense person, you also have to have intense joy about life and intense feelings about the world.
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I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.
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A bad peace is even worse than war.
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As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
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You can only do so much theatre.
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If you want to learn the true nature of a child you have to watch how she plays. If you want to learn the true nature of an adult you have to watch how she does her job.
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When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you're playing, really.
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I respect the hell out of everyone who does a network show. That is a marathon. It's so many episodes, and it can be a meat grinder. Anyone making a network show, and on top of that making a very good network show, that's an insane feat of Herculean endurance and fortitude.
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I would like it if people would think that beyond Newman, there's a spirit that takes action, a heart, and a talent that doesn't come from my blue eyes.
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If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors.
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There's a lot of new subject matter to learn. You start slowly peeling the onion and start figuring out how the policy and the politics intersect.
