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've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.
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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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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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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 definitely like wearing leotards.
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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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Concerning river runners: If we were going into war again I can't think of any I'd rather have on our side. I mean, all of these good men and women. And if they were on the other side I'd join the other side.
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People don't believe in positive changes anymore.
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I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.
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He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a more unfortunate wretch than the oppressor; for in the day of adversity nobody is his friend.
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For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.
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When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.
