John Sterling Quotes
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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I like working with my own body weight, and I just do the best job I can to be healthy and strong, both before and after a fight.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
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Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461
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As far as fighting, I just love to fight and enjoy my life more because of that. I think that it is pretty apparent to those who know me that I do this because of the love. I am not looking to get famous or acquire a bunch of cash. I am following my passion and that's what is about for me.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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Bad movies are when people go, 'oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.'
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You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.
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Compliments are only lies in court clothes.
