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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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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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 is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
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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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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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We're doing what we want to do, and that's why the kids respect us.
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In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.
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If you've ever played golf, you know that you yell 'fore' off the tee. You're not threatening somebody; you're warning them: 'Look, don't get hit by the ball, it's coming.'
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I'm a '90s music kid.
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
