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 love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.
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I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
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My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
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You are responsible for how your life turns out, and your attitude shapes that life for better or worse.
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To step into tomorrow's possibilities you must let go of yesterday's realities. Be careful of your choices between what was, is and will be. It is very hard to fully step into your destiny while you are still holding on to your history.
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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.
