John Rocha Quotes
My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I am.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is - whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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I want to be like Bradley Cooper when I grow up.
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In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
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Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.
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I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.
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Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.
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To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
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Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
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I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.
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There came from without the hoof-beats of a galloping relative and Aunt Dahlia whizzed in.
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And I do pay a lot of attention to how things feel underneath my feet. It's a way of transporting yourself somewhere that you're trying to write about - closing your eyes and imagining what it feels like to literally be in that space. Maybe because of this weird aura thing I find it a bit easier to put my body in an imaginary space.
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I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
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[On growing up in a large family with little money:] ... to take a bath ... we just had a pan of water and we'd wash down as far as possible, and we'd wash up as far as possible. Then, when somebody'd clear the room, we'd wash possible.
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I'm happy with my commercial heroine tag.
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Five years is a very long time. If you think about it in terms of just people's lives, in terms of who our audience is: if you were in high school when you first saw our stuff, you're in college now.
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My heritage is a huge part of everything I do; it is, after all, part of what has made me who I am.
