John Steinbeck Quotes
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.
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I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
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I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
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I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.
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Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.
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Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
