John DeLuca Quotes

Making a living doing something you love is my idea of happiness.

John DeLuca

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• I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • School
  • Bad

• Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Friends
  • Almost
  • Seem

• The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Past
  • Universe
  • Understand

• Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Different
  • Country
  • Real

• Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Up
  • Way
  • Treat

• I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Perfect
  • Blue

• Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Actor
  • Author
  • Musical

• You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

  

  Hank Williams
  • You
  • Like
  • Sing

• You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Love
  • Man
  • Woman

• Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

  

  Malcolm Arnold
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Family

• Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Work
  • Money

• I was asked to do 'I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here,' and I said: 'No thank you.'

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Me
  • Celebrity
  • Thank You

• That was not what men and women fought for during the war.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we've been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, 'The Russians are coming.' So we screened 'Red Dawn' and 'Top Gun.'

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Door
  • Wall
  • Red

• (Roberto) Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Guy

• It's the way you play that makes it. What I say is, for Christ's sake, you don't have to kill yourself to sing. Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.

  

  Count Basie

• All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Women
  • Honor

• The principle that adequate health care should be provided for all, regardless of ability to pay, must be the foundation of any arrangements for financing the Health Service.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Health
  • Service

• Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Perceive

• As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Environment
  • Balance
  • Revolution

• Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'

  

  Peter Blair Henry
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• The answer is there was a shift, not a drop, in demand. Chinese shipments of computers were up more than 20 percent nationally, but fell almost 60 percent in Laredo, more than accounting for the drop in overall Chinese imports.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Chinese
  • Computers
  • Shipments

• I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.

  

  Nicholas Royle
  • Stock
  • Authors
  • Bookshops

• Making a living doing something you love is my idea of happiness.

  

  John DeLuca