John Mahoney Quotes
I've got a business manager and he'll just come right out and say, 'It wasn't the best part for you,' or 'It was okay, but I've seen you do better.' So when he does say, 'Wow that was great!,' then I know that he means it and it's something.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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I love recording music.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.
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For many women - myself included - pregnancy brings on tremendous anxiety and confusion, along with the joy.
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The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.
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I just really love being in my pajamas.
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Cinema connects people: they respond as a group, you feel you are not alone, and you see you are not alone. Capitalism is destroying this social aspect of films, and even empathy, by creating the illusion that you are more important than the next person: 'You will buy this because you are special.' That is horrible.
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I've got a business manager and he'll just come right out and say, 'It wasn't the best part for you,' or 'It was okay, but I've seen you do better.' So when he does say, 'Wow that was great!,' then I know that he means it and it's something.
