John Gardner Quotes
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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We are all terminal.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
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The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.
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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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I don't drink Pellegrino and Perrier, but my nieces and nephews do.
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I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.
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When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian.
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I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
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Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct the past to suit the present views and feelings of the writer; the other is a natual desire to set his own part in affairs in a pleasing light.
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I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!
