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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Growing up, dad coached my footy and cricket teams, but that's all he could do for me.
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The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, Im convinced, bad ones, because they made people sick. So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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God's own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that?
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Nat doing 'Fault' was the greatest thing for our band, and the only reason that our song got in it because Nat was screaming it in the movie. Now we can say that we have a song in 'Fault in Our Stars,' and we have a thousand fans who went to listen to our music because we performed at an event for 'Fault in Our Stars.'
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
