John Grogan Quotes
I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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I want to win football games.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.
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I started out in journalism in the mid '90s working for the sister wire service of the 'Wall Street Journal,' which is called Dow Jones Newswires. Then I joined the 'Journal' in its Brussels bureau back in 1999.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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Comics writing is for your artist. It's not for the general reader; it's for the artist. So I love writing scripts for artists.
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Let's put it this way: I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours. I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why, exactly.
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I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up.
