John Mahoney Quotes
And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor.
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I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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Actor's life is very long.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.
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I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
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Composition has almost always been solitary.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
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If you goin' to work, you gonna put my album on. If you happen to be makin' an hour-and-a-half drive, you gonna put my album on, because people spend more time in their car then they do in clubs.
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A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off.
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I wasn't that into it or that knowledgeable of fashion until I started working on 'True Jackson.' I feel like it was my duty to learn more because people would feel that I should because I'm on the show. So definitely, that made me more involved with fashion, and now I'm a little fashion guru. It's totally out of control.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
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And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor.
