John Gay Quotes
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.
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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
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When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.
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I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
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I've always liked SyFy.
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You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
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Twasn't me, 'twas the Lord! I always told Him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect You to lead me,' an' He always did.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.
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I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know.
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'Bombay Velvet' is my most romantic film, it's my 'Titanic' or 'Gone With The Wind.'
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I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.
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I'm not one to be like, 'What is everybody doing? Let me do that!' I just do what I want.
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American influence is not what it used to be.
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I just always found it easier to be the same guy onstage as you are offstage.
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That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.
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If this was NASCAR and we had bumpers I'd have won. I thought the finish line was a little bit ahead of me. Then they said, 'It's over.' Really? It would have been exciting, one more lap.
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When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.
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It's hard for me to find people to paint. There has got to be something about them that only I can see.
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There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
