John French Sloan Quotes
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Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.
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I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
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It's no secret that in our society, and many before, people are trend followers. For some reason, they feel better about themselves if they are dressed in the latest fashion or have the newest tech gadget.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Taylor being married and so on, that does evolve the dynamic on the road.
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The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.
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I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.
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I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
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I think the reason why people have trouble fighting me is because I don't come from a specific background, and they can't prepare to fight me. I come in, and I push the pace, and I think that pushes a lot of people off their game, as much as I push the pace through the whole fight.
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Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
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Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path.
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The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.
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Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.
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Often you'll see the same three or four data items together in lots of places: fields in a couple of classes, parameters in many method signatures. Bunches of data that hang around together really ought to be made into their own object.
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We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade God to do what we want, but to find out what he wants us to do. It so often happens that in prayer we are really saying, 'Thy will be changed,' when we ought to be saying, 'Thy will be done.' The first object of prayer is not so much to speak to God as to listen to him.
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You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.
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I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.
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I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.'
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