John Quelch Quotes
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.
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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
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There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.
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My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'
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If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally.
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When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
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I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.
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I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!
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Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'
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Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
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It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.
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After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.
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Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
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For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.
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I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
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I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.
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Look, at the end of the day people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.
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I feel totally responsible for what I see. I feel totally responsible for what I photograph.
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I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.
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All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me.
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Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don't like change and criticism become writers, actors, or comedians? There's something about this process. I joke about it: My kids have made me a better person, and I only need, like, 34 more of them to be a really good guy.
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To be a dean, you have to be a salesman as well as a scholar.
