John Ray Quotes
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.
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I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.
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Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.
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I'm a big fan of a great glass of red wine and a delicious bowl of pasta made from scratch.
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I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'
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The best vision is insight.
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When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'
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That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the back.
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I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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Being alone is very difficult.
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There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.
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The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.
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The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.
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The prospect of an early death sits differently upon each person. In some it gifts maturity far outweighing their age and experience: calm acceptance blossoms into a beautiful nature and soft countenance. In others, however, it leads to the formation of a tiny ice flint in their heart. Ice that, though at times concealed, never properly melts. Rose, though she would have liked to be one of the former, knew herself deep down to be one of the latter.
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In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
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The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you.
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If you're not getting it perfect, life is still going to go around. The world still turns. It's going to be OK. Tomorrow is a new day.
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In the summer months, I like as little makeup as possible - I don't want to be too painted. I might put a little cover-up to smooth everything out.
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Misery loves company.
