John Oldham Quotes
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
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Colombians are sick of 'Narcos' stories because Colombia is a country that has changed so much. It's a country that's completely different from the country that we see in 'Narcos.' They reconstructed themselves in 25 years, which is amazing.
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I like fighters who come to fight.
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The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.
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EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.
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You mustn't smile when you lose. You have to be sad like other people. You have to win every game.
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A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.
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I wanted to be the Dutch Bruce Jenner - that was my goal. He was my hero.
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And all your future lies beneath your hat.
