John Shimkus Quotes
The earth will end only when God declares it's time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.
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There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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I want to see more sports in schools.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.
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'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical scene by scene. It was a musical unlike anything I'd ever seen before myself.
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Insecurity has been my lifelong thing.
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All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
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My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.
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The earth will end only when God declares it's time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.
