John Stockwell Quotes
Customs and immigrations officials are trained to detect the unusual. In some countries they are especially alert to CIA officers

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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.
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Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
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I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
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I hate being too pretty.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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It seems every morning I wake up to face a list of 20 things to do, with time only to do 10, and somehow I always wind up squishing in 30.
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My dad was around every second. Teaching me the game.
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You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.
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I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank into that mental space where you feel really immersed in the world of the book and then you can just kind of go.
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I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache.
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I was graduated in 1940 with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Social Science but a major in Mathematics, a paradoxical combination that was prognostic of my future interests.
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Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one person. This one person, who strives to give the best, may be overwhelmed, busy, trying to raise many children. And even in homes with two parents, many children are essentially alone.
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I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.
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Customs and immigrations officials are trained to detect the unusual. In some countries they are especially alert to CIA officers