John Glover Quotes
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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Growing up in America, even in the rougher parts of Elizabeth, I had two nice playgrounds to choose from as a child.
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I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up.
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I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.
