John Roos Quotes
People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.John Roos
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
Naval Ravikant -
By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
Zach Woods -
You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
Warren Zevon -
Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
Ed Asner -
People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
Karen Allen -
People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
Parker Posey -
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
Barbara Kingsolver -
My health is fine.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan -
The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
Kate Capshaw -
In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
Jackie Cooper
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
Carl Lewis -
National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
Park Geun-hye -
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke -
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Quintilian -
There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
Olivia Colman -
The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
Damien Rice
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Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.
Johann Arndt -
When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.'
Jacqueline Woodson -
When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
Kate Fleetwood -
In Cuba, I didn't even have a bicycle.
Yoenis Cespedes -
For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life.
James E. Faust -
People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.
John Roos