John Jay Chapman Quotes
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Imagination rules the world.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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Love is the one wild card.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I am a big fan of the Gallagher brothers. At Liverpool, they came a few times; they are friends of Steven Gerrard. It was nice to meet them. When I was in Spain, I couldn't speak English, so I couldn't understand the lyrics. When I came to England, I started studying music and trying to understand what my favourite songs said.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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I'm responsible. I even did a commercial for MTV saying how I was going to register to vote. And I still haven't.
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My forte is awkwardness.
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Tell the Truth, and speak from your pay-grade. Don't try to answer questions that would better be directed to the battalion commander or Gen. William Westmoreland or President Lyndon Johnson. If you are a squad leader, answer questions about what you know and do.
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The best thing you can do to an audience is to make them work.
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Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.
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On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.
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All progress is experimental.
