John Sharp Quotes
Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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This love is silent.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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Give your best. Settle for nothing less than doing your best for yourself and for others.
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It's something in me, deep down, that makes me different in a race.
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People out there with pre-existing conditions, they are worried. Are they going to have the guarantee of coverage if they have a pre-existing condition or if they live in a state where the governor decides that's not a part of the health care, or that the prices are going to go up? That's the worry.
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All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.
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Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little.
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Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that.
