John Knoll Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
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I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
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Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.
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I don't think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because we're pretty much two different kinds of actors.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
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To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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When I was a kid, one of my hobbies was as model-maker.
