John Poindexter (John Marlan Poindexter) Quotes
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.
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My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest.
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My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.
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Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
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Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
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I keep returning to the combination of artichoke, broad beans and lemon. The freshness of young beans and the lemon juice 'lifts' the artichoke and balances its hearty nature.
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The country in which reparations actually happen is a very different one than the one we live in.
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pat your house payment. That's a tough crowd.
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It was so crazy, lucky, that 'Defiance' and 'Hemlock Grove' was shooting in Toronto at the same time. I got to be on both of them.
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I really do believe that inner beauty is so much more than any kind of outer beauty.
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I suppose I am interested in women plus anonymity plus disappearance.
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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
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People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?'
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Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart.
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