John Keegan Quotes
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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My favourite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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Good governance, safety, a chance to grow economically and professionally - those are important things.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.
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They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
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I work out four to five days a week, alternating three workouts.
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Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.
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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
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When you're young, you don't care about your parents and what they're doing. But then you get to your 20s, and you start watching their movies. And then you become an actor, as I did late in college, and then you're really watching them. And they were really very good.
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The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
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I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.
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For me, being able to say that my first-ever photo shoot was with one of the most well-known and iconic fashion photographers in the world is unbelievable.
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There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.
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I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.
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I'm happy that good works by young artists with limited chances will see the light of day by my purchasing them.
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I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.
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Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand: Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers wooing the caress, More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties Give me a cigar!
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Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.
