John Heard Quotes
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.
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Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.
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When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.
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Getting to fight at the AT&T Stadium is a huge privilege for me and my career.
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I like things all shined up and rocking with hooky pop choruses.
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If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
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I beefed with 50 Cent for seven years.
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Let your customers be your partners; let your vendors be your employees. What's necessary in this transformation more than anything else is courage and a willingness to change.
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Family, nature and health all go together.
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He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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I always think that friends and family are off-bounds. I went into politics; they didn't.
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A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.
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I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would cooperate. It was a very easy way to roll into what later became my profession. It's more innocent. When you're a child actor in the U.S., it's a different thing I think.
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Belief in one’s identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one’s immortality...and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful.
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In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.
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If Martin Scorsese thinks you stink, you stink.
