John Marston Quotes
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Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.
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I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that.
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Turkey is fine, but if I don't have the sides, forget about it. And cornbread stuffing is at the center of my plate. I will have about six sides and then a little bit of turkey and gravy.
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
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I recall the first time my agent told me to wear clothes specifically chosen for me, I would try and find excuses not to do it.
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It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.
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I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.
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I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.
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Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.
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I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.
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Time heals everything. Sometimes you have to go through that pain and heartbreak so that you can get to the other side and come out on top.
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I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.
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I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.
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'I have chosen you!' Keep that note of greatness in your creed. It is not that you have got God but that He has got you.
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I'm not so much into the beats. I'm more into the spiritual side of the music.
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I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.
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It's the form it takes when it comes out the other side, of course, that gives a story something unique--its life. The story, in the way it has arrived at what it is on the page, has been something learned, by dint of the story's challenge and the work that rises to meet it--a process as uncharted for the writer as if it had never been attempted before.
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The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge , man-being and woman-being.
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You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.
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There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.
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I told myself that in the country of my birth, from which I was disengaged in an increasingly irreversible way, there undoubtedly were many men and women like him, basically decent people who had dreamed all their lives of the economic, social, cultural, and political progress that would transform Peru into a modern, prosperous, democratic society with opportunities open to all, only to find themselves repeatedly frustrated, and, like Uncle Ataulfo, had reached old age - the very brink of death - bewildered, asking themselves why we were moving backward instead of advancing and were worse off now with more discrimination, inequality, violence, and insecurity than when they were starting out.
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My side ain't chosen. My side was given.
