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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The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.
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The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History.
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History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.
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No one will ever kill me, they wouldn't dare
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There are internal chains and external chains. All the external chains in the world won't enslave you, if you are free inside. And all the external 'freedom' in the world won't liberate you, if you are chained inside.
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Compliments are only lies in court clothes.
