John Leonard Quotes
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
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Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.
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In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.
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It is base to take advantage of our rank or greatness by making fun of those placed beneath us in life.
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People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.
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What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.
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But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.
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Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
