John Glen Quotes
My style was always to put the audience in the driving seat, so they feel they're a part of the action.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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I like to build things. I like to do things.
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When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
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The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
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I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.
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Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
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Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.
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I think that's why I put my energy into making music. That's how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.
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My style was always to put the audience in the driving seat, so they feel they're a part of the action.
