John Lone Quotes
I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.
Quotes to Explore
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Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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Rotgut was, to me, just this way to get into the underground of Manhattan where you have these little pockets a villain could rise from; a rot in the bowels of Manhattan. It led to these stories that were just very creepy.
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It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.
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When you make music, and even if it's commercially successful, it doesn't mean that it's going to hold up. It takes time to sort of take stock of what you've done and whether it's got legs and whether it's going to really have a place.
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Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.
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I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.
