John Jay Chapman Quotes
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
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I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.
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Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.
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The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.
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The tyrant is a child of pride.
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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
