John Sexton Quotes
The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.
Quotes to Explore
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up.
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I'm a huge baseball fan. I always liked Marge, and I just wanted a couple of her things.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly.
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The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.
