John Gardner Quotes
So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
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I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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I know I look super young.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.
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Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.
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Age merely shows what children we remain.
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After a show over the summer, a girl came up to me who was a pastor at her church, which was not accepting of same-sex relationships. She said that 'Same Love' allowed her to come out regardless of the consequences.
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I'd had three husbands by 23. The second was a songwriter who couldn't handle the fact the little lady was doing better than him.
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So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.
