John Lee Hancock Quotes

I didn't know the books and certainly didn't know the tragic origin story of Mary Poppins in 1906 Australia.

John Lee Hancock

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• I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Me
  • Because
  • Table

• I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • God
  • Think
  • Look

• Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Woman
  • Hip Hop
  • Complex

• They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

  

  Kate Millett
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect

• I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!'

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Long
  • Saying

• You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Children
  • You
  • Queen

• It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Work
  • Always
  • Film

• 'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Funny
  • Married

• Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Thinking
  • First
  • Kiss

• I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Power
  • Powerful
  • Religion

• Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Work
  • Important
  • Me

• I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • English
  • Actor
  • Around

• All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Different
  • Unique
  • Same

• I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Think
  • Game
  • Win

• Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Time
  • Child
  • Stars

• We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business...There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • World
  • Live
  • Business

• I've loved comics since I was a kid, collected them, I've always dreamed of being involved in comics.

  

  Taika Waititi
  • Kids
  • Involved

• It's cool to express myself, but I've had to learn that doing interviews isn't completely therapy - spilling everything about yourself isn't healthy all the time. But I've been through things that have made me a stronger person, and if I can help some people, I will.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• We have a motto at Naropa: 'Keep the world safe for poetry.' It's humorous but has some real bite to it. If the world is safe for poetry, it can be safe for many other things.

  

  Anne Waldman
  • World
  • Real
  • Poetry

• I didn't know the books and certainly didn't know the tragic origin story of Mary Poppins in 1906 Australia.

  

  John Lee Hancock