John Marshall Quotes
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
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One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.
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Working hard is way more fun. If you had to goof off 40 hours a week, you couldn't do it. It would drive you crazy.
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I was not in 'Iron Man 2,' but I take a daily iron supplement.
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Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who... has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming - and achieving - big dreams again.
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'24' is such an iconic show.
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At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.
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As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.
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The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.
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Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.
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There's so much excellent new music around that I can't afford to buy it all and I haven't the time to review as much as I'd like. I can't remember a better time to be a musician or to listen to music!
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A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
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The act of writing itself distracts the thoughts, and what is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed.
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Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. They end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.
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It is the historical necessity, if there is a historical necessity in history, that a new decade of electronic television should follow to the past decade of electronic music.
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I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.
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Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.
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A right word is the most direct route between two minds.
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When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.
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I don't know what's in store for me. I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring.
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The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.
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True compassion is about not bruising the other person’s self-respect.
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We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding.
