Geoff Johns Quotes
I love Captain Cold. I have him on my door at the office. He's grounded; he doesn't want to rule the world. He's not necessarily driven by ego, which a lot of villains are.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov -
The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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To film in water is three times harder than just on land.
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A big hook can be great; you'll have a big opening. But if you haven't got the right foundation, you're never going to keep that train on the tracks.
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to, do it. Want to change the world? There's nothing to it.
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I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.
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The distance between me and Benny [Goodman], was that I was trying to play a musical thing, and Benny was trying to swing. Benny had great fingers; I'd never deny that. But listen to our two versions of 'Star Dust.' I was playing; he was swinging.
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I love Captain Cold. I have him on my door at the office. He's grounded; he doesn't want to rule the world. He's not necessarily driven by ego, which a lot of villains are.
