John H. Johnson Quotes
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
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Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.
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If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.
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America is a meritocracy.
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I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.
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Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
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You can have a lot of fun in a New York minute.But there's some things you can't do inside those city limits.Ain't no closing time, ain't no cover charge.Just country boys and girls gettin' down on the farm.
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
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I've got to sing for Pops; I've got to keep my father's legacy alive because he started all of this. So I started calling people, and nobody would give me a chance, but I didn't let that stop me. I took money out the bank and I started making me a record, and I did it in this guy's basement.
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When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.
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I love America.
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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
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We have several projects in the pipeline, but one of the rules we set for ourselves is we don't want to solicit or announce any projects that aren't ready for publication. I'm personally really tired of reading about titles that never come out.
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Charlestoning is hard. People were fit in the '20s to be able to do that. I guess they didn't sit in front of their computers all day.
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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That's how I make work. Along the way, I take notes, I read about history and popular culture. Sometimes I act out things in the studio. I go back to my mother's hair salon so I can hear three voices going all at once. I pull inspiration from everything.
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I've ended up as a filmmaker who really loves the movie part of movies. That time in my life was a big influence on the kind of movies that I ended up making. I always think I'm going to make a movie that's gritty and real, but then I make a movie that's like an opera. I fight it at first and then that's just the way it is.
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To me, making a CD is like writing a book.
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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
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All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.
