John Lone Quotes

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

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• For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
  • War
  • Service

• I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Play
  • Wonder
  • Everyone

• I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Want
  • Now
  • Now And Then

• Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Political
  • Girl

• I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • America
  • Clever
  • Alcohol

• You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • Man
  • Always
  • Same

• One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Power
  • Trust

• Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Fun
  • Never
  • Segregation

• All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Films
  • Go
  • Got

• I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Politics
  • Decide
  • Month

• That's the one criteria I have - I can't do an impression of someone I don't like.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Like
  • Someone
  • Impression

• Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Christ
  • Pure Bread

• Israel is in the grip of a ghetto mentality. We have a powerful army. We have the atomic bomb. But the psychology of what comes out of Israel has the tone of the Warsaw Ghetto.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Powerful
  • Army
  • Psychology

• We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Diseases
  • Avarice
  • Fickle

• That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Happy
  • Lost
  • Content

• I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo and a Hiwatt combo with Marshall cabs.

  

  J Mascis
  • Play
  • Old
  • Three

• So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Parents

• My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I began instinctively to feel that there was something lacking, even in my own home, some false conception of family relations, some incomplete ideal.

  

  Emmeline Pankhurst
  • Family
  • Home
  • Childhood

• When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • People
  • Think
  • Ride

• Yoga is more a state than a methodology. A state where there is nothing missing. You don't feel like you have to grab this or grab that in order to be complete or full. From wringing out the body and the mind, from sitting in meditation, from studying scripture, from selfless service.

  

  Colleen Saidman
  • Missing
  • Nothing
  • Yoga

• I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

  

  John Lone