John Gardner Quotes
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book.
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The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities are Americans first and that they're entitled to the same rights and freedoms as everybody else.
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As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project. I'm not a very prolific songwriter, so I keep those for Depeche Mode.
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When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.
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Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.
