John Gordon Sinclair Quotes
A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt.
Quotes to Explore
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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
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I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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You never know what can happen in football. It's football.
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All the embroidery is made in my father's workshop in India... and all the cutting and sewing is done in my studio.
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I could make up characters till the cows came home. Plot's what hard. Very hard.
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I don't think I'm conscious of most of the things I've drawn from football, because they're so ingrained in me now... understanding that the discipline and the routine and the regimentation to be successful.
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You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.
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My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song that I sing was not generated from within me. Even if I walk with light, I am not the light; and if I am a taut-stringed lute, I am not the lute player.
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She must have walked through life with men like him falling at her feet, squashing them underfoot like autumn leaves. It probably happened so often that all she noticed was that nice crunching sound.
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With consumers buying two smartphones for every desktop computer they purchase, the demands, challenges and opportunities of the mobile space are reshaping our assumptions about design and user behaviour.
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Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
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New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me.
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I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.
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Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.
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She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.
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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
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We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.
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A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt.
