John James Audubon Quotes
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
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My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless.
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Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.
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I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.
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Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
