John Leeson Quotes
No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.
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A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
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Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.
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When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.
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I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.
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'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being the first book to be translated into English.
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I'm so happy that I was able to make it to 120 games for Germany; 175 games would have been possible. I've had many great moments, but particularly the way the fans supported me and the road to the final in Rio.
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Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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I'm very blue collar myself. So it was easy for me to embody that in a sense. It's much harder for me to embody Norrell than it is to embody Terry Donovan.
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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
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I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.
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I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.
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I want everyone to live to their full potential without having to fear someone will try to knock them down or discriminate against them.
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For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.
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Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.
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'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.
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While I can't tell you what people are going to do for work 100 years from now, the future doesn't hinge on my imagination.
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I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
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I didn't quite believe I was pretty for a long time. I never thought about it.
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I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus.
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No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.
