John Lahr Quotes
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
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I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
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I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.
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If you don't trust the media, they are not going to trust you, and if they don't trust you, it's hard for the public to trust you.
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All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
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Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.
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By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.
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I gave my artistic laugh and also threw in some quirky language for good measure. "Lawks-a-mercy, no! I'm going to have a long bath and..." I looked shyly down. Which is pretty impressive to have done artistic laugh, quirky language and shyness all in the space of ten seconds.
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His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.
