John Strachan Quotes
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I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
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Cinema and the arts invite viewers to focus on a story and, in doing so, peel away its layers and peer into the depths of the human soul.
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I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.
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It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it.
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We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.
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According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
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After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
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A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.
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Whenever we had career day at elementary school, and we could dress up like what you wanted to be, when I got on stage, mine was playing major league baseball.
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Can the word ‘best’ mean anything at all, except to some particular person in some particular mood? Perhaps not - so if we allow the word to stand as an absolute, you, or you, or perhaps you, may be appalled at omissions or inclusions or, never having read me before, may even be impelled to cry out, ‘Good heavens, are those his best?’
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China has not established the rule of law and thus there is no justice.
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I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced and I know I would have won gold.
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The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.
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I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.
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I spent more time on dark ships in danger zones than any other woman in the world.
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Infinite power just isn't very interesting, no matter what game you're playing. It's much more fun when you have a limited tool set to use against the odds.
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The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned.
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You live till you die, and that's the end of it. What good is your legacy when you are dead? I worry about being alive, selling work, having fun, moving and doing things when I am alive.
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I was raised primarily by women. I had a mother who almost killed herself to survive, I had a sister who was eight years older who was like a second mother, and my mother had two sisters. In the environment I grew up in, I heard a lot of female perspectives.
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This Epistle, is therefore a legacy to the Christians of all ages.
