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

• I had always presumed that my first book would be published, but I never dreamt that I would write 15 bestsellers and have this wonderful life in America that I have entirely built for myself.

  

  Jane Green
  • Life
  • Book
  • America

• We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.

  

  Mohammed Omar
  • Destroyed
  • Percent
  • Amount

• He died and He went down to hell! You know not what you mean. Our rafters were of green fir. Also our beds were green. But out of the mouth of a fool, a fool, before the darkness fall, We tell you He is risen again, The Lord of Life is risen again, The boughs put forth their tender buds, and Love is Lord of all!

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Green

• Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.

  

  Leif Garrett
  • Time

• Digital communication is completely different from in-person, face-to-face conversations. One will give you surface insights, and the other really gives you depth.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Different
  • Communication

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

  

  John Lone