John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.
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If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.
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Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.
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The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.
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The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
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We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.
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The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.
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I believe in the power of the human spirit.
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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
