John Shirley Quotes
People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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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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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.
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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
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I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.
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Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.
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People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.
