John Skipper Quotes
I actually thought I wanted to be Thomas Wolfe, but I didn't have the talent. So I thought I could edit Thomas Wolfe.
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
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I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
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I'm a reclusive weirdo.
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I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.
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I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.
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During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.
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I make it a point to study the character I do, and if the story demands that I wear a particular outfit, I'm game.
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
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We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.
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Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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Hugh, I know I shouldn't even be asking you this, but what we really need in order to go in and take out Saddam is a precipitous event-something that would make us look good in the eyes of the world. Could you have one of our U-2s fly low enough-and slow enough-so as to guarantee that Saddam could shoot it down?
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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, 'that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.'
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A foot of jade is of no value, an inch of time is to be prized.
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He had not remembered her name, but he had seen her dance - had been carried away and fascinated by the supreme art that can make you forget art.
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You've gotta stop making stuff up.
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You can set the bar at seven and a half feet and tell them nobody has every jumped that before. And they say, 'I can do it.' And they'll go out and try.
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It's my privilege to work with an actor like Vikram who gets into the skin of the character he is playing, so much so that after the shoot it takes him quite some time to get back to his real self.
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The overall thinking of the shortstop covers the overall context of the ballgame. You have to know the count they'll hit-and-run on. You're thinking of the speed, not only of the runner at first base, but the runner at the plate. You have to know how fast the pitcher is on a particular day.
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I don't do what you people want. I Do What I Want!
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[Magic] Johnson is seriously remarkable, in terms of what he has accomplished in his profession and outside of his profession as well.
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My parents had a great work ethic.
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People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
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I actually thought I wanted to be Thomas Wolfe, but I didn't have the talent. So I thought I could edit Thomas Wolfe.
