John Polson Quotes
TV directing is fine because you can come in and do a TV show in a relatively short period of time, and that can pay the bills.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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Writers are so important.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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We have to defend America and be strong.
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There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.
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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
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TV directing is fine because you can come in and do a TV show in a relatively short period of time, and that can pay the bills.
