John Polson Quotes
Australians love to pump you up when you're nobody. Then, when you start to put your head above water and say, 'Well, actually, I am a bit different, I am an individual and I do have a particular talent', or whatever, they want to go after you. But the good news is that once you reach a certain level, I think they start to leave you alone.
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All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
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My brother Paul's really kind of obsessive, and he obsesses over things.
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There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I guess it's kind of a compliment. Or people say, 'Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.' The work is to make it look effortless. That's the hard part.
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We've made our list and want consumers to check it twice, ... Preventing needles tragedies and providing a safe environment are the best holiday gifts parents can provide their children.
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Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.
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What we instill in our kids is that if you work hard, good things will happen.
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Australians love to pump you up when you're nobody. Then, when you start to put your head above water and say, 'Well, actually, I am a bit different, I am an individual and I do have a particular talent', or whatever, they want to go after you. But the good news is that once you reach a certain level, I think they start to leave you alone.
