John Hope Quotes

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

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• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • People
  • Myself
  • Week

• One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Problems
  • Plan
  • Bold

• I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Read
  • Because
  • Shakespeare

• I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.

  

  Yael Stone
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Want
  • Moments
  • Special

• Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Stories
  • Fight
  • Intelligence

• I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Writing
  • Career
  • Eye

• I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Time
  • Great
  • Country

• When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Hook
  • Bait

• Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Real
  • Past
  • Romantic

• You can't call me a Twitter phenomenon or a YouTube one. These things are useful, but so's hard gigging. One year I did 311 shows. I did six in one night alone.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Night
  • Alone
  • Year

• I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Just

• My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more than I realised.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Dad
  • Impact
  • Died

• If you never give up, you'll be successful.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Never
  • Successful
  • Give Up

• We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Mind
  • Special

• There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

  

  Linda Tripp
  • House

• In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

  

  John Cale
  • Music

• If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Moving

• I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

  

  John Hope
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