John Selden Quotes
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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I have always loathed working out.
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How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
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Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.
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A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
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I find that male directors are more interested in what the film looks like as opposed to what the film is about emotionally. My job is not to make the film look pretty, and I don't feel drawn to making myself look pretty within the film.
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I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That’s all I’ve ever used in my paintings.
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The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.
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The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.
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The first fight I saw live, the fighter I was shadowing lost in front of a crowd of forty thousand people. The scale of that is staggering to me. Undergoing that overlap between something very personal and something very public strikes me as both admirable and also somewhat terrifying.
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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
