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 was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme.
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One capitalist always kills many.
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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We can mention only one point (which experience confirms), namely, that next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. No greater commendation than this can be found — at least not by us. After all, the gift of language combined with the gift of song was only given to man to let him know that he should praise God with both word and music, namely, by proclaiming [the Word of God] through music.
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I think people assume that whatever kind of music you make is the music you listen to. Don't get me wrong, I listen to tons of pop music and all the music that really inspires Best Coast is very straightforward '50s and '60s pop music, but I've been listening to R&B and rap since I was a kid. I grew up in L.A. It's part of the culture. I listen to anything.
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
