John Skipper Quotes
I have this thing I used to say at home and in the office: If somebody is calling, unless it's somebody who can fire me, I'll call them back later.
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.
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I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.
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Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.
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I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.
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I have this thing I used to say at home and in the office: If somebody is calling, unless it's somebody who can fire me, I'll call them back later.
