John Philip Sousa Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.
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The Lord, marks the fall of the smallest sparrow. He knows how so many in authority treat the infirm and the aged. Look at the Napoleons, Caesars and the like. Rather than casting themselves in God's image they made Gods of themselves. and were destroyed. ( Edgar Cayce On the Millennium Chapter One - The great new planet earth. )
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Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.'
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.
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One lives but once in the world.
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Sincere composers believe in God.
