John Lone Quotes
When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.
Quotes to Explore
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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The apartheid system renounces no violence.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
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I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
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I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
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I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'
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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
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While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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I hate the taste of alcohol. When I'm drinking, I'm drinking Red Bull.
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As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.
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I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.
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Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.
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I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.
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I grew up down in the hills of Virginia. I can be in Kentucky in 20 minutes, Tennessee in 20 minutes or in the state of West Virginia in 20 minutes. And it's down in the Appalachian Mountains, down there. And it's sort of a poorer country. Most of the livelihood is coal mining and logging, working in the woods and things like that. Most people has a hard life down that way.
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Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.
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Better to have one friend of great value, than many friends who were good for nothing.
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In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.
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When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.
