John Dykstra Quotes
Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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My best friend is my husband.
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As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.
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As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.
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I don't like to come to tournaments, like, one week before, because I just need, like, a few days, and then I'm ready to go for it.
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There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.
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If we want to protect people against dictators or repression or torture, don't you need that rule to be universal so as to not end up with a situation where we do so only when it is comfortable, profitable and safe?
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Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box.
