John Hillcoat Quotes
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
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The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.
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If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.
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I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.
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Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.
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The butt is not a magical place that only gay people can visit, like a leather bar or the Liberace Museum.
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My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.
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As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man’s belligerent capacity.
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Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.
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A prediction, or any assertion, that cannot be defended might still be true, but an explanation that cannot be defended is not an explanation.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
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Perhaps, therefore, ideal stage managers not only need to be calm and meticulous professionals who know their craft, but masochists who feel pride in rising above impossible odds.
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I like to keep a calm set.
