John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I studied Morse code.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
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I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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I love watching TV.
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If you can control your emotions, chances are you don’t have too many.
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I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.
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It comes down to the difference between what you were planning to do and what life throws at you and you have to end up doing. The one who knows how to improvise is the one who comes out ahead.
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Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.
