John Robert Seeley Quotes
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
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If I would make a song dedicated to any woman, it would have to be my mom because, you know, she's been there since I came out of her. She would have to be the one... my mom or my daughter.
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The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.'
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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.
